In Caravaggio’s “St Matthew and the Angel” (1602), the Bible seems to arrive as a shock to those who wrote it. Matthew, bare-armed and dirty-toed, is a fisherman stranded on dry land. Everything about

I found Ben Timberlake’s article [FT465:38-41] about seeing gnome-like entities through a military night-vision sight rather interesting. Ben puts forward a theory about spores from fungi being a cont

There’s plenty to criticise about that ancient approach We wouldn’t recognise the system practised in ancient Athens as democracy in the sense we understand it today. Women did not have the vote, and

Giles Catchpole on riverside ghosts

“Money isn’t funny” is a comedy maxim. But can it ever be ghostly? For example, how about when money drops from thin air? A ghost story about materialising cash sounds very odd, but it is what a trio

What do our beloved hostelries have to do with the discovery of DNA, the D-Day landings and The Lord of the Rings ? Everything, as Ashleigh Arnott discovers