A large passenger jet sits silent and still on the edge of a sun-beaten track. It won’t fly again — its engines have been stripped down, its wings wrecked and weathered by time. Nearby, shafts of ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world’s hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook and Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter. In August 1974, the UN established a buffer dividing the island of Cyprus ...

NICOSIA, Cyprus – Capt. Adamos Marneros gazed with foreboding at the dots on the radar screen of his passenger jet as it prepared for landing on Cyprus. It was before dawn on July 20, 1974, and the ...

Harrowing images show the abandoned terminal, decaying runways, and even aircraft that have been left untouched for decades. Originally built in the 1920s as an RAF base, Nicosia International Airport ...

These eerie pictures reveal the inside of an abandoned airport that has gone untouched for 50 years. Just shy of 10km west of the Cypriot capital city of Nicosia, Nicosia International ceased its ...

Flags of Turkey and breakaway North Cyprus hang on the facade of the new terminal for its inauguration - Copyright AFP Birol BEBEK Flags of Turkey and breakaway North ...

The buffer zone was hastily evacuated during the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974. For the past five decades, it has remained mostly uninhabited. Read on for a visual tour of the zone that's ...

11:25, Mon, May 12, 2025 Updated: 11:28, Mon, May 12, 2025 Europe is full of bustling airports, carrying passengers in their billions to their various destinations. Figures for last year show that ...

Europe bustles with busy airports, transporting billions of passengers to countless destinations each year. Last year's statistics reveal that more than 2.5 billion travellers took flight across the ...