In 1974, farmers digging a well near the city of Xi’an in China struck fragments of clay that led to one of the greatest archaeological discoveries ever made. Beneath the

At the heart of mainland Southeast Asia live the Thai, the majority people of Thailand and the greatest of the Tai peoples of the region. Speakers of a tonal language

If you ask a local for one free thing every visitor should do in London, many will say the same: walk the South Bank. This wide, traffic-free promenade runs along

The story of the Tuvans, a Turkic herding people at the geographic center of Asia: their nomadic life of steppe and taiga, the astonishing art of throat singing, their rare blend of Tibetan Buddhism and shamanism, and their unusual path from brief independence into the Russian state.

On the rugged island of Timor, at the far eastern edge of the Indonesian archipelago, live the Timorese, a people of mixed Austronesian and Papuan heritage on the frontier between

The Tiv are one of the larger peoples of central Nigeria, numbering some five million or more, concentrated in the valley of the Benue river in Benue State and the

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Few places pack as much drama into one site as the Tower of London. For nearly a thousand years this riverside fortress has been a royal palace, an armoury, a