Experience the solemn grandeur of the Çanakkale Martyrs' Memorial, standing tall on the Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey, honoring the soldiers who fought in the Gallipoli Campaign of World War I. This ...

Turkey has begun a new phase in restorations of the nearly 1,500-year-old Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, focusing on preserving the monument’s historic domes from the threat of earthquakes.

An ancient monument discovered in Turkey may just be an ancient monument. But, if its markings are what experts think they are, it might be the world’s oldest solar calendar.. In a study ...

From Africa’s Swahili Coast to the Old City of Antakya in Turkey, the types of challenges faced by monuments on the Watch reflect the problems we face as a global society. In Sub-Saharan Africa, for ...

The World Monuments Fund list seeks to raise awareness and funds to help preserve the sites it spotlights. Africa's Swahili Coast, Maine's lighthouses and Buddhist grottoes in China are also in peril.

The Arslan Kaya monument in central western Turkey. It is one of eight similar large facades carved on rock faces in the Phrygian Highlands. Mark Munn ...

The monument is heavily damaged from weathering and looters, making the inscription extremely hard to read. What it says has been a source of debate since the 19th century, Munn noted in the paper.

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5 Must-visit historical monuments in Istanbul 1. Basilica Cistern . Also known as the Sunken Palace, it is the largest cistern from Istanbul's Byzantine era which is still standing strong.

Göbekli Tepe in Turkey, host to one of the world's oldest ancient farming communities, paid a lot of attention to the skies. The world's oldest solar calendar might have been found there.

The world’s oldest calendar, carved onto an ancient pillar around 12,000 years ago, has been discovered by archaeologists. The timekeeping system, unearthed at the Gobekli Tepe site in mountains ...

Markings on a stone pillar at a 12,000 year-old archaeological site in Turkey likely represent the world's oldest solar calendar, created as a memorial to a devastating comet strike, experts suggest.