Visit Jericho

Ruins of King Omri’s capital Samaria, later Herod’s Sebaste — Roman colonnade, theatre and the traditional tomb of John the Baptist.

Tombs of the pharaohs near Luxor.

Parthian desert city whose temples fused Greek, Roman and eastern styles.

Ancient city of the Patriarchs.

Saudi Arabia's Nabataean rock tombs.

The "museum without walls": grassy royal burial mounds, the Cheomseongdae observatory and Silla-dynasty treasures across the town.

Ancient rock-hewn town on the Silk Road, inhabited from the Iron Age.

Ceremonial capital of the Persian Empire.