CRESTONE • Up on a hill on the outskirts of Crestone sits a tower. Situated in the San Luis Valley, the tall yellow spiral contrasts with the stark blue sky. A dirt path leads up the hill to the ...

The city calls the properties around Apex the "Downtown Gateway." It wants the developer to replace "current vacant, underutilized and blighted buildings and land areas with active uses – built for ...

Uniquely is a Sacramento Bee series that covers the moments, landmarks and personalities that define what makes living in the Sacramento area so special. When the sun plunges below the horizon in ...

The Great Ziggurat of Ur and the city surrounding it are explored through archaeology, restoration efforts and ancient texts, ...

LAGUNA NIGUEL – The rolling hills of Laguna Niguel are expansive yet predictable, saturated with suburban homes, winding parks and stretching shopping centers. But long before private development took ...

In yet another case of destruction of cultural heritage, ISIS has obliterated the 2,900-year-old ziggurat of Nimrud, a 140-foot-high stepped tower comprised of mud bricks, the Times reports. Nimrud, ...

Chogha Zanbil was first spotted from a surveillance airplane in 1935. The excavated complex was discovered to be one of the few ziggurats built outside Mesopotamia. The ruins of the ancient Elamite ...