Tag: Heritage
Another collapse at Pompeii renews calls for better care
Less than a month after Pompeii’s so-called House of Gladiators collapsed into rubble, portions of a garden wall at the nearby House of the...
Vandals spray-paint prehistoric rock art in Red Rock Canyon
Woody Smith paused Monday to admire the view as he walked past a manzanita shrub on Red Rock Canyon's Lost Creek Trail only to...
Heritage body to bring back Mughal glory to city’s gardens
In an effort to rejuvenate the gardens of Delhi, many of which came up during the Mughal period, the Indian National Trust for Art...
Indonesia's Borobudur rising from the ashes
The major eruption of Mount Merapi on Nov. 5, which blanketed surrounding areas in volcanic ash, poses a serious and ongoing threat to ancient...
Peru's archaeological heritage homeward bound
A CENTURY ago Hiram Bingham, an American explorer backed by Yale University, hacked his way across jungle-clad mountains and came across the ruins of...
Protecting Middle Earth
Surrounded by rice paddies on the Indonesian island of Flores, a limestone cave holds the only evidence of the 'hobbit' – a strange human...