Maya city in the Chiapas jungle with the tomb of King Pakal, howler monkeys in the trees and morning mist on the temples.
Towering 9th-century Hindu temple compound near Yogyakarta.
Sanctuary of Apollo on the slopes of Mount Parnassus — home of the ancient oracle.
Sanctuary of Zeus where the Olympic Games were held for a thousand years — stadium, temples and the workshop of Phidias.
White travertine terraces and pools.
Colossal stone heads ringing a mountaintop royal tomb from the 1st century BC.
Sunken Byzantine reservoir under Istanbul, its columns rising from black water.
71-metre Buddha carved into a river cliff in Sichuan — the largest stone Buddha in the world.
Rock-cut cave temples in Maharashtra, crowned by the monolithic Kailasa temple.
Xi'an's buried army of clay warriors.
Boulder-strewn ruins of the Vijayanagara empire along the Tungabhadra river.
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