Experts and residents fear heavy foot traffic and pollution is destroying what's left of the thousand-year-old temples at Angkor Wat in Cambodia.

Burrowing animals are making "Swiss cheese" of some of England's oldest historic sites, the country's heritage guardian has revealed.

Exploding lava, a rare glacier collapse, a pole-vaulting bullfighter, and a newborn panda are among the stars of this week's extreme images.

Fossil-filled cliffs in Canada, wetlands in Kazakhstan, and coral lagoons in the South Pacific are among the eight natural wonders named as new World Heritage sites in 2008.

With a highway running through it and weather wearing it down, China's greatest landmark is no longer the nearly impenetrable barrier of centuries past.

A postcard from Martin Luther King, Jr., and a congressional Medal of Honor are among hundreds of the late U.S. civil rights pioneer's possessions to be auctioned off.

In the 1980s planned flooding submerged part of the Great Wall of China. Now divers are gaining a unique perspective on the ancient structure.

South Africa's poor can lessen the burden of soaring food costs by resuming traditional subsistence agriculture, officials say. Part of Global Food Crisis: A Special News Series.

About 9,500 years ago, nomadic hunter-gatherers camped out on the banks of the Seine to hunt and collect flint pebbles, archaeologists say.

A beach full of red balloons, a new Argo setting sail, and a U.S. flag lit up by lightning are among this week's most colorful events.

Many Bolivians feel that coca has been unfairly stigmatized in the country, where the plant has traditional medicinal uses and features in many everyday rituals.

Wig curlers and fragments of a tea service were among the half a million artifacts found at the childhood home of America's first president.

Wig curlers, a pipe with Masonic carvings, and a half million other artifacts were also part of the discovery, which will help scholars fill in large gaps in the story of the first U.S. president's early life.

A well-preserved settlement near the temple of Edfu provides rare glimpses into the daily lives of the ancient Egyptians.

For centuries, the Chapel of All Saints in the Czech Republic has drawn visitors with a chandelier and other décor made from the bones of some 40,000 people.