Périgord possesses two superlative assets: unrivalled rock art and matchless cuisine. The two seem utterly incompatible: after all, it stretches one’s imagination…
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The oasis town of Ghadames is an architectural gem in western Libya. It once lay on the trans-Saharan trade-route described in the…
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Digging pre-European lives on the balmy 'desert island' of Carriacou…
Crete lies in an earthquake zone. This has affected the island over the centuries, but how? In the 1850's Captain Spratt, RN,…
To say Kate Whiteford, the Scottish artist, is fascinated by archaeology is an understatement. Land drawings/ installations/excavations, her newly published, and sumptuously…
Richard Hodges writes from Philadelphia, USA…