It is hard not to see them as excessive. The glorious gold and silver vessels that graced elite banquets in the Achaemenid…
The Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha was obsessed with defending his ‘paradise on earth’. He feared invasion by NATO troops using a combination…
Italy is in lockdown as I write and it feels like Christmas Day, such is the silence. Yet the cuckoos have dodged…
High on a hilltop near the village of Ploçe, Albania, lie the ruins of the ancient polis of Amantia. The city was…