Why this great empire believed bloody rites and cannibalism brought order to the cosmos

The earth-shattering collapse of the Western Roman Empire was the result of invasions, corruption and cruelty

A CHILEAN DOOMSDAY CULT ENACTED AN UNSPEAKABLE CRIME

Still in her 20s, Gracia Mendes Nasi (Nacy), better known as Doña Gracia, was recently widowed and fabulously rich. She should have been able to live in comfort for the rest of her life. Her husband,

Maya artefacts are something you’d probably expect to find in an archaeological site in Mexico or hidden in ruins buried deep in the Central American jungle. A startling number of them turn up in Euro

‘I felt that I should like to kiss the hands that had awakened a new world of music for me.’ The year was 1888, the occasion was the Paris debut of a 27-year-old pianist named Ignacy Jan Paderewski. A