This story appears in the February 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. The bronze likeness of Muammar Qaddafi’s nemesis was lying on his back in a wooden crate shrouded in the darkness ...

A woman of about 50 was moderately wounded on Wednesday evening on Or Hahaim Street in the Old City of Jerusalem when she was attacked by a man armed with an ax. The incident is being treated as a ...

Archaeologists have unearthed of a 3,000-year-old Egyptian mining settlement hidden beneath the sands, known as the "Lost City of Gold". The long-lost city of Aten, near Luxor, was initially ...

Description is available under license CC-BY-SA IGO 3.0 Old City of Zamość in southeastern Poland is an outstanding example of a late 16th-century Central European town designed and built in ...

The buildings in the Old City, dating from a variety of periods, include 15th-century arcades and 16th-century fountains. Most of the medieval town was restored in the 18th century but it has retained ...