Professor bill sillar on the legacy of the inca empire

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

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

NEW SEVEN WONDERS / ANTARCTICA / LETTER FROM AMERICA

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

“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

Our gardens have difficult histories. As a historian of empire, writing a book re-telling the stories of America’s plants, I spend swathes of my day reckoning with them. Most of the plants we grow wer