Historical Sites

The brilliant-white, terraced pools of the Pamukkale “cotton palace” hot springs have lured people to this area for well over two millennia and are th… Read the rest

Roman Baths in Bath ( England ) The Celts first declared these hot springs sacred and dedicated them to their goddess Sulis. Then, in A.D. 43, the R… Read the rest

Canyon de Chelly National Monument Native Americans have lived in this steep-walled red-rock canyon for nearly 5,000 years, and 800 years ago they b… Read the rest

Mesa Verde National Park These Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings—built of sandstone with mud mortar between the 6th and 12th centuries—… Read the rest

Plato’s lost continent of Atlantis may have referred to this Bronze Age Minoan city; it was destroyed possibly by the massive explosion of the volcano… Read the rest

Fields, greenhouses, and the suburbs of Antalya now surround what’s left of Perge, but dial back two millennia and you’d find a thriving Roman city. A… Read the rest

Izmir is now the closest major city to Pergamum, an ancient Hellenistic cultural center whose acropolis rises 800 feet above the valley and includes m… Read the rest

Myra (Demre) Lycian tombs with square columns carved into limestone cliffs during the fourth century B.C. look like houses bunched together. They re… Read the rest

Delhi’s history is often spoken of in terms of its seven cities. These were fortified settlements, established by various rulers between the 11th and… Read the rest

The Ruins is the remains of the ancestral home mansion of the family of Don Mariano Ledesma Lacson and Maria Braga Lacson. It is situated in Talisay,… Read the rest