Babylon was not simply built. It was imposed.

Raised from mud and water, ordered by ritual and repetition, it became a city that expected obedience and assumed endurance. Walls, symbols, and law worked together to give Babylon a singular confidence: that it would remain, long after those who shaped it were gone.

For centuries, Al-Balad was the working heart of Jeddah, a Red Sea gateway shaped by pilgrimage, trade, and constant arrival. Built from coral stone quarried from the sea itself and cooled by timber rawashin, the city evolved to endure heat, density, and movement rather than spectacle. Today, as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Al-Balad remains a living urban landscape, where restoration, daily life, and deep history continue side by side.

Victoria falls reveals how a landscape moves through time. This is the story of a river, a gorge and the smoke that thunders.

From the narrow Siq to the Treasury and the Monastery, Petra tells the story of a civilisation that thrived in one of the harshest landscapes on Earth. This is the history, engineering and wonder behind Jordan’s most ancient city.

On Turkey’s Aegean coast lies Ephesus — the city that became time itself. Once home to the Temple of Artemis, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, it rose and fell with empires, leaving behind marble streets, grand theatres, and whispers of gods and emperors.

Journey to the heart of Sri Lanka’s ancient skies with Sigiriya — a stone citadel of kings, dreams, and vanished empires.

Walk through the dust of kings and the silence of ziggurats. In Ur, memory is carved in clay and shadow, where the past still whispers through every ruin.

Discover one of the world’s oldest cities — where civilisation began.