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Located on the western coast of Türkiye, facing Athens, the city of Teos was in antiquity a major hub of culture, art, and ...

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Teos was a thriving cultural hub on the western coast of Türkiye, but the city has been mostly uninhabited since around the ...

As Mark Twain wrote, Damascus “measures time not by days and months and years, but by the empires she has seen rise and ...

The discovery of a Scythian boot provides insight into the craftsmanship and daily life of the ancient Scythian nomads.

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The 8.5-mile-long wall that surrounds Xi’an, touted as one of the best-preserved walled fortifications in China, could be the ...

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Long famous as the birthplace of paella, Valencia offers 300 days of sunshine, exuberant architecture and wide swaths of ...

Discover which cities lead in size with their urban and metropolitan populations, such as Tokyo, Delhi, Shanghai and, of course, São Paulo.