Angkor Wat, temple complex at Angkor, near Siĕmréab, Cambodia, that was built in the 12th century by King Suryavarman II, is the vast religious complex comprising more than a thousand buildings. It is one of the great cultural wonders of the world. Angkor Wat is the world’s largest religious structure ...
Lake Baikal in southern Siberia, Russia, remains covered with ice for almost five months a year. Known as the 'Galapagos of Russia', its age and isolation have produced one of the world's richest and most unusual freshwater faunas, which is of exceptional value to evolutionary science ...
The Chand Baori is a stepwell built over a thousand years ago in the Abhaneri village of Rajasthan. It is one of the largest stepwells in the world and also one of the most beautiful ones. Located in the eastern part of the province of Rajasthan, it was built by King Chanda somewhere in the 9th century ...
The Phoenix Islands Protected Area (408,250 sq km), the largest marine protected area in the Pacific, is globally exceptional and as such is a superlative natural phenomenon of global importance. The property contains an outstanding collection of large submerged volcanoes, presumed extinct ...
Daniel Craig has received the title of Companion of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George from Princess Anne during a ceremony at Windsor Castle, according to UPI. The honor, in recognition of Craig's contribution to film and theater, was bestowed upon the ...
Brugge is the capital and largest city of the province of West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium, in the northwest of the country, and the seventh-largest city of the country by population. It is an outstanding example of a medieval historic settlement, which has maintained its historic fabric ...
Built between the 1st and 7th centuries A.D., the holy city of Teotihuacan is situated some 50 km north-east of Mexico City. It is characterized by the vast size of its monuments – in particular, the Temple of Quetzalcoatl and the Pyramids of the Sun and the ...
Wat Rong Khun or the White Temple is one of the most original temples in Thailand. The original version of the temple was in very poor condition, when a famous Thai visual artist, Chalermchai Kositpipat, decided to buy the temple and turn it into a masterpiece of modern ...
Azerbaijan National Library named after M.F. Akhundzade has launched a virtual exhibition “October 18 – the Restoration of Independence Day". The exhibition features photos, books and articles highlighting the history of the country's independence ...
The Embassy of Greece in Baku and the International Mugham Center (IMC) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding in the field of cultural cooperation, as Greek Ambassador to the country Nikolaos Piperigos met with IMC Director Murad Huseynov ...
Established in 1931 and transformed into the Museum Directorate in 1933, the Afyonkarahisar Archaeological Museum, also known as the Afyon Museum, is an archaeological museum in Afyonkarahisar, Turkiye. The museum exhibits a wide variety of artifacts from the Copper Age, Bronze Age and the civilizations of Hittites ...
Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka has been named the winner of the prestigious Booker Prize for Fiction for his second book ‘The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida’, about a war photographer murdered in the country’s civil war, according to Euronews ...
Sagarmatha is an exceptional area with dramatic mountains, glaciers and deep valleys, dominated by Mount Everest, the highest peak in the world (8,848 m). With the highest point on the Earth’s Surface, Mount Sagarmatha (Everest; 8,848 m) and ...
Autistic Turkish pianist Bugra Cankir, labeled a musical genius, will perform Bach's piano concerto as a soloist with an orchestra for the first time at a concert in the hall of the Presidential Symphony Orchestra in the capital Ankara on Tuesday. Born autistic, Cankir got the highest score in the absolute pitch test ...
A special festival brought a taste of Turkish food and cultural activities to Washington, D.C. on Sunday, according to Anadolu Agency. The event on Pennsylvania Avenue, organized in the capital for the 20th time by the American Turkish Association ...
Azerbaijan’s first ever coffee festival - Coffest has started in Baku. The festival brought together over 30 coffee shops, both local and foreign coffee companies, three art centers, representatives of diplomatic corps from Cuba, Venezuela, Colombia and Argentina ...
Located in County Antrim on the scenic north coast of Northern Ireland, the Giant’s Causeway is an area of over 40,000 adjacent basalt columns that were created by a series of ancient volcanic eruptions ...
The “Second breath” exhibition, jointly organized by Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Culture, the "Cultural Network House" (CNH) Public Association and the Museum of Modern Art, opened at the Museum of Modern Art in Baku ...
Located 550 km off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, Cocos Island National Park is the only island in the tropical eastern Pacific with a tropical rainforest. Its position as the first point of contact with the northern equatorial counter-current ...
The Crown fans have been given a peek at new images from the upcoming fifth series, according to Yahoo News. The Netflix drama is set to return in November, with Elizabeth Debicki taking over from Emma Corrin as Princess Diana and Dominic West starring as Charles ...
