Four hours north of New York City, Aurora Shoe Co. crafts monkish leather slip-ons with an ardent cult following. One writer ...

The names of foreign places can be filled with an inexplicable magic, as all travellers know, even in an age when this magic ...

The Ranjana script is visually intricate and has deep cultural and historical significance. It is primarily used by the Newa ...

The enduringly popular colour has been splashed across churches, mosques, shop fronts and even homes while some cities, like ...

From then on others were built around the country, such as the Basingstoke Steam Laundry and Baths, which was opened in 1885.

This week the 7 Most Endangered Programme, a civil society campaign to save Europe’s endangered heritage, announced its list ...

Arakelots Monastery and Settlement in Armenia has been named among the 14 most endangered sites in Europa.

Dartmoor is not a barren wilderness, the landscape has been touched all over by man, as Simon Dell described to appreciative ...

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Recent finds uncovered by metal detecting efforts near the hamlet of Hezingen in the Netherlands, however, prompted ...

It features three huge medieval towers adorned with shimmering stained-glass windows. But the kids were focused more intently on something at the edge of the stonemason’s yard outside the ...