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Kath kuni is recognisable by its layered interlocking of deodar wood with locally sourced stone, without the use of mortar (Image credit: Tarang Mohnot)
Heritage Architecture

An ancient earthquake-defying design

By Tarang Mohnot

The Ziggurat of Ur is a 4,100-year-old massive, tiered shrine lined with giant staircases (Credit: Geena Truman)
Ancient Engineering Marvels
Iraq's answer to the pyramids
By Geena Truman
Jaipur's Jantar Mantar is a 300-year-old observatory of sculptures that can measure the positions of stars and planets, and precisely tell the time (Credit: Meinzahn/Getty Images)
Ancient Engineering Marvels
The city built on a cosmic grid
By Shalbha Sarda
Jože Plečnik's plan for Ljubljana was inspired by ancient Athens – he even called it "The Slovenian Acropolis" (Credit: Tuul & Bruno Morandi/Getty Images)
Videos
The design that changed European cities
By Martina Žoldoš
With only 10% of Florence's tourist numbers and a third of Pisa's, Livorno is mostly ignored by visitors (Credit: Solveig Steinhardt)
Culture & Identity
Italy's beloved 'ugly' city
By Solveig Steinhardt
The Alhambra had one of the most sophisticated hydraulic networks in the world, able to raise water from the river nearly a kilometre below. (Credit: Perszing1982/Getty Images)
Ancient Engineering Marvels
The city where water defies gravity
By Esme Fox
Chiara Lee Taiarol founded El Cocal as space for women to learn about and work with glass (Credit: Massimo Pistor/El Cocal Glass Studio)
Why We Rule
The inventive women changing Venice
By Marianna Cerini
A woman wearing yellow feather leis (Credit: Photo Resource Hawaii/Alamy Stock Photo)
Culture & Identity
Hawaii's ultimate form of gratitude
By Erinne Magee
A new "XXXL Chichi" includes illustrations of Curaçao's most beautiful attractions (Credit: Serena Israel)
Culture & Identity
The island breaking beauty standards
By Sarah Harvey
Colorful buildings align right looking left at the San Juan river
Culture & Identity
The rebirth of Cuba's abandoned city
By Brendan Sainsbury
Nowa Huta's central square is laid out in a distinctive pentagonal shape
Adventure & Experience
Europe's failed socialist utopia
By Luka Jukic
Stendhal syndrome was named for the French writer, who in the 19th Century suffered a similar set of symptoms (Credit: Peter Unger/Getty Images)
Adventure & Experience
The travel syndrome that causes panic
By Daniel Stables
Headshot of Afaf bin Dajem Al Qahtani, Al-Qatt Al-Asiri artist
50 Reasons to Love the World
Saudi's lineage of interior stylists
By Shaistha Khan
Mud houses in Sanaa in Yemen
Ancient Engineering Marvels
Yemen's ancient skyscraper cities
By Ulrike Lemmin-Woolfrey
Today, only 36 seaweed-roofed houses are left on the island (Credit: Thomas Kyhn Rovsing Hjørnet/Alamy)
Heritage Architecture
The 300-year-old homes of the future
By Karen Gardiner
Cambodia’s ‘hidden’ Angkor Wat (Credit: mantaphoto/Getty Images)
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Asia’s unknown architectural marvel
By Naotomo Umewaka