Kathmandu

Factories businesses and over a million tourists are taking their toll on Kathmandu

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The Lost Monastery of San Vincenzo

The discovery of a 'monastic Pompeii' in the province of Isernia in central Italy

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The Temples of Angkor

The restoration of the temples in Angkor Cambodia, including the magnificent Angkor Wat

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Newgrange - Ireland

How Irish authorities are cracking down on the black market by recruiting treasure hunters

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British Museum - Lyre

A 7th Century lyre from a ship burial at Sutton Hoo is reconstructed and played

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Uluburun Shipwreck

The Uluburun shipwreck sank in 1,400BC with enough bronze on board to equip a small army

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Hagia Sophia

Hagia Sophia, one of the great buildings of the ancient world is painstakingly cleaned

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Petra

How was Petra's extraordinary rock-cut architecture achieved?

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The Australian Museum

Australia's first museum was established by early European settlers in 1827

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Ironbridge Gorge

How a gorge in the heart of England's Shropshire became a Unesco World Heritage site

• 29 mins

Prague

Despite war revolution and occupation Prague remains one of Europe’s best preserved cities

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The Monuments of Vietnam

Vietnam's history is written in its monuments. But can they be protected from developers?

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Orford Ness

The Suffolk nature reserve that was once a top secret military site

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Sana'a in Yemen

How did the ancient city of Sana'a develop multi-storey buildings with geometric patterns?

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Ethiopian Christianity

Ethopia's Christian heritage is an ancient one. But how many of their sites have survived?

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Australia

The new-found desire in Australia to preserve their colonial convict and industrial past

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Venice

Venice is sinking. Can concerned organisations from all over Europe hold back the tides?

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Zuiderzee Museum

A maritime museum dedicated to preserving the heritage of the Zuiderzee region

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The Great Irish Famine

Moves to commemorate the Great Irish Famine which began in 1845

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Hong Kong

From an island of fishermen to one of the world's first "tiger economies"

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London

Archeologists have discovered some strange things under and around London.

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Byzantine Shipwreck

The discovery of a Byzantine wreck in Tantura Lagoon once the ancient harbour of Tel Dor

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Joods Historisch Museum

Destroyed by the Nazis, the Jewish Historical Museum was rebuilt in Amsterdam in 1955

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Zanzibar

The history of Zanzibar, a cornerstone of world trade for over a 1000 years

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United Arab Emirates

The astonishing transformation of pearling and fishing villages into oil rich metropolises

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Pompeii

The continuing destruction of Pompeii 2,000 years after Mount Vesuvius

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The Colonial Williamsburg Fifes and Drums

The Fifes and Drums continue to play military music from the American Revolution

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Troy

Immortalized by Homer in the Iliad Troy still draws archaeologists from around the world

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Bosnia

The Siege of Sarajevo and its legacy on the city

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Future Monuments

From eyesores to ancient monuments, the race to save Britain's World War Two pillboxes

• 28 mins