UNESCO World Heritage Site

Greece is among the top ten countries for the number of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Europe in 2023. The new list, published by Statista, included particularly important cultural, natural, and mixed sites. Greece boasts 19 UNESCO World Heritage Sites,...

The stunningly-beautiful ancient city known as Petra in southern Jordan is a world treasure like none other on the globe. The ancient rock city is built into the dramatic pink-colored stone of Jabal Al-Madbah mountain, facing outward to a...

In Peru, a team of archaeologists have made a new discovery. They have found a sealed corridor that is over 3,000 years old. This corridor, known as "the condor's passageway," is believed to lead to other chambers within a huge...

Heavy rains caused flooding at the archeological site of Petra, Jordan. Officials and the Petra Development and Tourism Region Authority (PDTRA) called for the evacuation of tourists from the area. Heavy rains fell in the southern part of the country,...

Welcome to Warsaw, Poland -- where history and modern times collide in a beautiful display of buildings, museums and art! Warsaw is one of the top ten fastest-growing European cities, and is known for its spin on Greek “filoksenia”,...

Located off the Peloponnesean coast lies a secret treasure of antiquity: the ancient city of Pavlopetri. This magical city is thought to have been submerged due to a series of earthquakes which occurred around 1000 BC. Dating back 5,000 years,...

Excavations at the ancient coastal town of Byblos, Lebanon, have been ongoing since the 1960s. Recently, the two lead scientific supervisors in the “Byblos and the Sea” project asked for help from experts at Greece's University of Patras in locating...

From its premier last October in Mykonos to the Baku International Tourism Film Festival, short film DELOS 2015 is making its mark. This June the film received the Silver Award in the Ecotourism category at the Baku International Tourism Film...

After a year of restoration works, the grand Rotunda of Thessaloniki, also known as the Church of Agios Georgios, reopened its doors on Friday December 18.  Part of the Unesco World Heritage List since 1988, the building is one of...

The Municipality of Kalambaka, resting on the northwestern edge of Greece's Thessalian Plain, will soon be known as the “Municipality of Meteora,” according to a decision recently taken by the Kalambaka city council. The decision for the name change was...