I love maps. Sometimes they present information in a vivid and memorable way. So it was when I saw a map about words in European languages that derive from Arabic. […] ...

My love affair with the Mediterranean began decades ago, when I was backpacking around Greece, living on Greek salad and pine-fragranced retsina wine and swimming in the sea at midnight under a full ...

Prince Salina knew that “if we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change”. On Pantelleria, one of Italy’s most remote islands, time seems to have taken that line quite literally. The ...

Pictures show hundreds of intact amphorae scattered across the seabed near Mazara del Vallo, where a Roman shipwreck lay hidden for over 2,000 years.

When the plague swept through Glastonbury, Wells, Shepton Mallet, Frome and Street, it didn’t just kill – it reshaped ...

Here are five places that tell the story of the Pearl of the Ionian Sea. The Arab-Norman Castle, Saracen Castle, or Monte ...