The boy behind the mask

Discover the life of the Mughal consort who held unprecedented power as a co-ruler of one of the most prominent and wealthiest empires in history

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

W hen Erich von Däniken died in Interlaken, Switzerland, at the age of 90 on 10 January, I was offline for the weekend. My parents had come to visit their grandson after a major snowstorm had delayed

What began as a simple attempt to trace my paternal grandfather online has unfolded into a web of lost marriages, mysterious deaths and unexpected headlines,” says Mike Medland. Born in 1949 in India

After a decade and a half of excavations, archæologists have uncovered the naturally mummified remains of well over 100 indigenous Yakuts of north-eastern Siberia, one of the coldest places on Earth.

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