Within hours of stepping ashore, the 19th-century missionaries were dead, their bodies cut up and eaten by local chiefs. Undeterred – or…
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Pingyao is an archaeological site with a difference: 30,000 people still live in it.
Once the banking capital of China, it has…
The Temple of Hera at Selinunte is testament to the grandeur of this great Classical settlement. But it is just one of…
An undisturbed tomb in the Valley of the Kings reveals its 3,000-year-old secret…
Down on the quayside in front of Oslo’s fabulously functional City Hall, a small queue of tourists gather to catch the ferry…
As the aeroplane circled to land at Athens international airport, I half expected to see a riot on the runway. The hysteria…
The mighty temple of a little known Maya Kingdom, and the undisturbed tomb of its first ruler.…