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.

Potential looting and commercial trips pose risk to artefacts left by lunar landings, says World Monuments Fund ...

The preservation organization’s list, the World Monuments Watch, usually sticks to cultural heritage sites within Earth’s ...

The Moon has been added to the World Monuments Watch (WMW) list of 25 endangered sites for 2025, alongside Gaza’s cultural ...

The Church of St Peter in Antakya is one of the world’s oldest - alamy This being a part of Turkey close to the Syrian border relatively few tourists pass this way. Nonetheless, this is one of ...

The Minoans made wine here in the 20th century B.C.,” said Ergin Ince, the guide that one of my hotels, Six Senses Kaplankaya ...

Clockwise from bottom right: Areej and Ahmad al-Khaldi with their daughters Shaghaf and Sama, at home in Sanliurfa, Turkey.Credit ... invoking the time in Islamic history when the first converts ...

Erdogan, modern Turkey's longest-serving leader, has been in power for more than two decades, first as a premier and later as president. Under Turkey's presidential term limits he is in his final ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Turkey is hoping for a breakthrough in efforts to end a four-decade insurgency by Kurdish militants after ...

What is clear is that Syria, once again, stands at the crossroads of history, its fate intertwined with the ambitions of an ascendant Turkey. Andrew Latham is a professor of international ...