PROUST’S FAMOUS NOVEL IS CALLED IN SEARCH of Lost Time, and isn’t that the key to why we love history? It’s the urge to recover the lost past. Can we get beyond the mysterious veil to real events and

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

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

NEW SEVEN WONDERS / ANTARCTICA / LETTER FROM AMERICA

A flawed comparative study of eastern and western philosophies