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A Boney Tale: Neolithic Misadventures in Scotland | Nancy Lyon | United Kingdom, Scottish Highlands, Wick

The wind still carries echos of the neolithic peoples, Celtic warlords, tribal Picts and Vikings who marked the landscape with their chambered cairns, stone circles, henges, standing stones and brochs

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Across Israel | Benjamin Ergas

Israel is located at the juncture of more civilizations and religions than probably any other country in the world. This is what makes it so complex, intriguing and challenging...

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Cities of the Gods: The Glory of Ajanta and Ellora | John Borthwick | India, Maharashtra, Ajanta

Around 2000 years ago, forgotten sages picked out favourable temple sites at these rock cliffs. Generations of disciples laboured with hand tools to hew giant temples, intricate statues and monasteries - cities of the gods

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Last Stand of the Byzantines | William Dalrymple

It took a few seconds for our eyes to adjust from the bright light of the olive groves to the darkly frescoed gloom of the interior. Slowly, out of the shadows, there appeared an entire, glittering Byzantine court

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Oops, There Goes Another Bit of Britain | Chris Moss | United Kingdom, Midlands, Derbyshire

Like many other circles, there is a rich pagan-cum-druidic folklore that extends way beyond the tentative specualtions of history books.

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Persian Nights, Iranian Days | John Borthwick

Shimmering in the desert light, a two-square kilometre maze of avenues, alleys, homes and a Zoroastrian fire temple is made entirely of mud brick and is crowned by the battlements of a citadel

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The Grand Tour: Style on the Nile | John Borthwick | Egypt, Cairo and Giza, Cairo

Teeing off from, or even climbing, the pyramids is no longer permitted, but the Giza circus that swirls around them hasn't abated a jot since the Duke of Windsor's day, if not the pharaoh's

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The Pompeii Excavation | Cameron Wilson | Italy, Campania, Pompeii

The city is so well preserved that the hum of a normal day’s activity seems to echo in the stone streets as you wander among its houses, temples, public buildings and amphitheatres

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The Transcendental Escalator Banaue | John Borthwick | Philippines, Luzon Islands, Banaue

I stand dwarfed amid these colossi, convinced that none of the other human-made pretenders to the "Eighth Wonder" throne approaches the grandeur of this "stairway to heaven"

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