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The World Heritage-listed Nazca lines are a well-known part of the ancient heritage of Peru. One woman spent over 50 years studying and protecting them. Ana Maria Cogorno Mendoza shares the story of Dr Maria Reiche...

Indigenous peoples of Austronesian ancestry are the original inhabitants of Taiwan. Taiwanese indigenous peoples — formerly called Taiwanese aborigines, Formosan people, and Gaoshan (臺灣原住民族) — lived...

“Why should a distant island beyond the north-western edge of the Roman Empire have become the target of Roman ambitions for conquest?" (1). With this question, historian Richard Hingley encourages...

Roman trade with the East refers to the overland and maritime exchange networks that connected the Roman Empire with Parthian Iran, the Kushan Empire...

The US-held Midway Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, the location of the Battle of Midway in June 1942 during the Pacific War of the Second World War (1939-45), aerial photograph taken in 1941. Official U.S. Navy Photograph...

Japanese aircraft carrier Akagi Aichi D3A Type 99 dive bombers are preparing for takeoff. Taken during the Indian Ocean Raid (March 1942), which attacked Sri Lanka (then called Ceylon).

A photograph of a British naval convoy in the Atlantic Ocean, a strategy adopted during the First World War (1914-18) to minimise losses to German U-boats. As additional protection, the ships are sailing a zigzag course. Imperial...

The Ottoman Sultanate (1299-1922 as an empire; 1922-1924 as caliphate only), also referred to as the Ottoman Empire, written in Turkish as Osmanlı Devleti, was a Turkic imperial state that was conceived by and named after Osman...

In Greek mythology, Calypso, whose name means "to hide" or "to conceal," is a nymph best known from Homer's (c.750 BCE) epic The Odyssey for falling in love with Odysseus and imprisoning him on her island...

Circe (also spelt Kirké) is a powerful sorceress and goddess in Greek mythology with an exceptional talent for mixing drugs. She was the daughter of the sun god Helios and the Oceanid Perseis. Circe's home was found on the wooded island...