Over the years, my best friend, who lives in Egypt, had invited me to stay with him more than once, always with the promise of extraordinary hospitality, but I always found reasons to decline. Sometim

In the Basilica Cistern deep beneath the streets of Istanbul lie mysterious statues of the monstrous gorgon

Three people who have declared themselves to be a “lost African tribe” have set up home in woodlands near Jedburgh in the Scottish Borders, proclaimed it to be the “kingdom of Kubala”, and changed the

PYRAMIDS, obelisks, coffins and sphinxes are embedded in ...

PHOTOGRAPHER SIMON URWIN ON THE UNIQUE CHALLENGES OF CAPTURING RAJA AMPAT’S CORAL REEFS FOR OUR OCTOBER ISSUE

Danish archæologists have uncovered a 4,000-year-old circle of wooden piles that they say could be linked to Stonehenge in Britain. The 45 Neolithic-era wooden pieces, in a circle with a diameter of a