One of the finest Roman cities, UNESCO-listed.
Maya temples rising above the jungle.
Ruins of the ancient Carthaginian capital.
Giant Roman amphitheatre, UNESCO-listed.
Greek ruins above the coast, UNESCO-listed.
Red-stone Jesuit mission, UNESCO-listed.
Ancient rock fortress with frescoes.
Sacred mountain and pyramids, UNESCO-listed.
Kushite temples standing alone in the desert east of the Nile.
More pyramids than all of Egypt.
Medieval capital explored by bicycle — the Gal Vihara rock Buddhas and the royal palace ruins.
Roman theatre beside the Mediterranean.
Saharan rock art and sand seas.
Parthian desert city whose temples fused Greek, Roman and eastern styles.
Ruins of the legendary ancient city.
Greek, Roman, Byzantine and Venetian ruins in a lagoon-side forest: a theatre, baptistery mosaics and city walls.
Grand rock-cut tombs at Paphos.
Colonnaded Roman avenue and one of the largest hippodromes ever built.
Black-basalt Roman theatre town.
Saudi Arabia's Nabataean rock tombs.
Ancient Dilmun fort by the sea, UNESCO-listed.
Angkor Thom’s central temple, where 200 giant serene stone faces stare from 54 towers.
Granite stelae up to 33 metres tall marking the tombs of the Aksumite kings, near the chapel said to hold the Ark of the Covenant.
Saharan plateau of prehistoric rock art.
The temple left to the jungle — silk-cotton roots strangle its walls, famous from Tomb Raider.
Roman mountain town with some of North Africa’s finest mosaics.
The "citadel of women": pink sandstone carved so finely it is called the jewel of Khmer art.
Thousands of rock engravings up to 40,000 years old.
Ruins of a 4,500-year-old Indus Valley metropolis.
Remarkably intact Roman city in the Aures.
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