A Spring Festival gala was recently held at Xuanya Village, or Cliffside Village, a once poor village in the Liangshan Yi autonomous prefecture in Southwest China's Sichuan Province. Featuring ...

The sites, from mesa-top pithouses and multistoried dwellings to cliffside villages, document the changes in the lives of a prehistoric people once dubbed the Anasazi. They are now more accurately ...

In 2002 it was officially depopulated and merged into a nearby village. After decades of abandonment, empty houses in the cliffside village - some still furnished - have been inhabited by an ...

The fortified historic center of the village that had stood for centuries was condemned by the Italian government in the 1930s, fearing the crag beneath may collapse. So, the locals left ...