Situated on the eastern bank of the River Jordan, nine kilometres north of the Dead Sea, the archaeological site consists of ...
Most of this archaeological site, which started as a Roman military camp and grew to become a town from the 5th ...
Built in the early 8th century, this exceptionally well-preserved desert castle was both a fortress with a garrison and a residence ...
The four Nabatean towns of Haluza, Mamshit, Avdat and Shivta, along with associated fortresses and agricultural landscapes in the Negev Desert, ...
Masada is a rugged natural fortress, of majestic beauty, in the Judaean Desert overlooking the Dead Sea. It is a symbol ...
The archaeological site contains some 3,500 underground chambers distributed among distinct complexes carved in the thick and homogenous soft chalk of ...
Tel Aviv was founded in 1909 and developed as a metropolitan city under the British Mandate in Palestine. The White City ...
Tels (prehistoric settlement mounds), are characteristic of the flatter lands of the eastern Mediterranean, particularly Lebanon, Syria, Israel and eastern Turkey. ...
Consisting of a series of catacombs, the necropolis developed from the 2nd century AD as the primary Jewish burial place outside Jerusalem ...
Located in the Germuş mountains of south-eastern Anatolia, this property presents monumental round-oval and rectangular megalithic structures erected by hunter-gatherers in ...
Located on an escarpment of the Upper Tigres River Basin that is part of the so-called Fertile Crescent, the fortified city ...
This region of Anatolia was conquered by the Turks at the beginning of the 11th century. In 1228–29 Emir Ahmet Shah ...
On the eastern slopes of the Masai escarpment bordering the Great Rift Valley are natural rock shelters, overhanging slabs of sedimentary ...
The fortified historic town of Harar is located in the eastern part of the country on a plateau with deep gorges ...
The Awash valley contains one of the most important groupings of palaeontological sites on the African continent. The remains found at ...
Located at over 2,000 m above sea level, the capital of Eritrea developed from the 1890s onwards as a military outpost ...
Wadi Al-Hitan, Whale Valley, in the Western Desert of Egypt, contains invaluable fossil remains of the earliest, and now extinct, suborder ...
The church, baptistry, basilicas, public buildings, streets, monasteries, houses and workshops in this early Christian holy city were built over the ...
The use of a local limestone shaped the construction of the old town of Hebron/Al-Khalil during the Mamluk period between 1250 ...
Lübeck – the former capital and Queen City of the Hanseatic League – was founded in the 12th century and prospered ...
The Jelling burial mounds and one of the runic stones are striking examples of pagan Nordic culture, while the other runic ...
Founded in 1773 in South Jutland, the site is an example of a planned settlement of the Moravian Church, a Lutheran ...
The archaeological site of Hedeby consists of the remains of an emporium – or trading town – containing traces of roads, ...
Speicherstadt and the adjacent Kontorhaus district are two densely built urban areas in the centre of the port city of Hamburg. ...