Set on a dramatic promontory high in the Armenian highlands, above a deep gorge whose walls are lined with strange columns of natural stone, stands a building that seems at
Most cities cannot tell you the year they were born. Yerevan can. High on a hill overlooking the modern Armenian capital stand the remains of an ancient fortress whose founding
On a stretch of rugged, semi-arid land not far from the Caspian Sea in Azerbaijan lies one of the most extraordinary open-air galleries in the world. Here, among a chaos
Out on the plains of southwestern Iran, rising unexpectedly from the flat landscape, stands one of the most extraordinary monuments to survive from the ancient world: a vast stepped tower
Some cities live for a few centuries and then fade. Susa lived for thousands of years, rising and falling and rising again through one of the longest continuous histories of