Faneromeni Church, Nicosia
The great church of the walled city – built from the stones of ruined Latin churches, guarding the tomb of the bishops the Ottomans executed in 1821.
The great church of the walled city – built from the stones of ruined Latin churches, guarding the tomb of the bishops the Ottomans executed in 1821.
The coral-and-gypsum palace of Sheikh Abdullah bin Jassim – the pearl-era heart of Qatar, now embraced by Jean Nouvel’s desert-rose museum.
Tusitala’s last home – the plantation villa where the Teller of Tales lived, wrote, and died, beneath the mountain grave Samoans dug for him by hand.
The Medes’ seven-walled capital under the living city – summer seat of Persian kings, UNESCO-listed 2024 with Hamadan’s layered millennia.
The Deep Skull’s cathedral cave – 65,000 years of rainforest humanity, painted boats of the dead, and the birds’-nest harvest, UNESCO-listed 2024.
The twin-moated city of the Dvaravati dawn – Thailand’s 2023 inscription, where Indic civilization first took Siamese form.
Seven millennia of travellers’ graffiti at the desert wells – Arabia’s rock-art library on the incense road, UNESCO-listed 2021.
The city of tolerance and hospitality – honey-stone merchant houses where Muslim and Christian neighbours built one urban culture, UNESCO-listed 2021.
The hill where the state was invented – a 4th-millennium palace with the world’s oldest swords, UNESCO-listed 2021.
Eight small mosques of earth and timber spikes – the southernmost heirs of Djenne’s tradition, UNESCO-listed 2021.