NEW SEVEN WONDERS / ANTARCTICA / LETTER FROM AMERICA

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

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

My husband, John, decided that he wanted to visit the Haynes Motor Museum, located near the small village of Sparkford in Somerset. As a lad he and his mates had spent many happy hours tinkering with

The poor citizens of Al-Jazira al-Khadra never knew what hit them. In 859, an unfamiliar fleet sailed into the bay separating this Muslim settlement – which later evolved into the city of Algeciras, n