To say that Britain had been propelled into a kind of mania in the days following the death of Her Majesty the
Today the world will say its final goodbye to one of the greatest cultural figures – and probably the most charismatic –
Much has been made in the days since the death of Muhammad Ali about the ‘whitewashing’ of his life and legacy.
While no one is likely to dispute Muhammad Ali’s claim to the title of Greatest Sports Star of All-Time, it was his
The Mausoleum of Augustus should probably rank as one of the most significant historical sites in the world. We are referring, after
“Every person has two homelands,” the French archaeologist Andre Parrot once commented; “His own and Syria”. T.E Lawrence (of Arabia), who spent
On October 19th 2011, a convoy of cars left the city of Sirte, carrying Libya’s beleaguered figurehead Muammar Gaddafi. On October 21st,
A magical star leading three mysterious ‘wise men’ from the East across miles and miles of wilderness to a small, obscure town.
Queen Nefertiti has remained one of the most fascinating, elusive figures from the permanently enchanting world of Ancient Egypt. Her final resting
In 2011, an international crime was committed that was so vast, so immoral, that the mainstream media even now refuses to address
In 2008 or 2009, the BBC made a documentary on life inside Libya: I remember it because I watched it at the