African history

Did you know that Thomas Müntzer, leader of the German Peasants’ War in 1525, used a rainbow flag to rally his followers? It’s an aptly exuberant image for the radical charisma of Müntzer, and for the

The Tale of Genji , the Japanese novel that dazzled the West

A Rajasthan tiger hunt picture and a silver kiddush cup from Khurasan with coeval inscriptions in Hebrew and Arabic starred at two sales that put the spotlight on the art of Central Asia and the Indian subcontinent

Having set up the “Kingdom of Kubala” in woods on the edge of an industrial estate near Jedburgh, Scotland, in the spring, Kofi Offeh, 36 from Ghana, Jean Gasho, 42, from Zimbabwe and Kaura Taylor, 21

Meet the prehistoric giants that roamed the Arctic Circle thousands of years ago

Madikwe Game Reserve, located in the north of South Africa, on the border with Botswana, lies awake in the predawn. It is no longer night, but neither is it yet day, when the temperature will soar. It