Everything you wanted to know about the inca empire

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

In 1494, the high castle walls that had dominated the Middle Ages came tumbling down in clouds of gunpowder smoke. It was the start of a new age

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

A maths formula, the Spanish Armada and Madonna all take centre stage this month

“America is lost! Must we fall beneath the blow? Or have we resources that may repair the mischiefs?” These are the opening words of a memo in the hand of George III in the wake of the 1783 Peace of P