An archæological mystery, first noticed accidentally due to aerial photography in 1933, is etched across the hillside of Monte Sierpe (Serpent Mountain) in the Pisco Valley in southern Peru. It takes

A monumental photographic journey through the cradle of humankind, says Peter Dench

In 1977, the year the movie Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope was released, marine geologists laid eyes on a deep-sea hydrothermal vent for the first time. They were diving inside the submersible, kn

Twenty six years ago, Italian writer and gardener Umberto Pasti fell asleep beneath a remote fig tree on a stony hillside facing the Atlantic Ocean, 40 miles south of Tangier. When he awoke, he knew t

The most challenging corner of the post-war period.” Those were the words of Motor Sport’s Denis Jenkinson when that corner, or rather sequence thereof, appeared under threat 30 years ago. He was talk

Mugello, one of Italy’s greatest racetracks, was once an epic 41-mile closed-road race. We go looking for its original layout in Maserati’s GT2 Stradale, the most focused MC20 yet