The Church of St Mary and St David at Kilpeck in the English county of Herefordshire is famous for its Norman carvings of writhing snakes an...
In 1777, a certain Joseph Heely of Birmingham published a guide book to the three great West Midland gardens of the mid-18th century with a ...
Back in mediaeval times, when people didn’t have Kindles to carry a thousand books, some book binders bound two separate books together in a...
For many western countries, doorstep milk delivery is a thing of the past, but in Japan, millions of people still rely on the milkman for fr...
Telling stories through mosaics and murals is a tradition that goes back to antique times. During the Soviet era, murals were used extensive...
Once upon a time there was a young nobleman who, after the death of his beloved wife, became so distraught with grief and anguish that he de...
In the 1920s, the Soviet government began searching for an isolated place where they could build a military complex to test biological weapo...
About 200 km northeast of the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, in a valley known as Nubia, lies the remains of three ancient Kushite kingdoms. He...
You might not know this, but Mozambique is one of the fastest growing tourist destination in the world. Its wild beauty and untamed nature h...
The granite quarries located along the Nile, in the city of Aswan, supplied some of the finest quality stones for the construction of temple...
