Off the eastern tip of New Guinea, scattered across the warm waters of the Solomon Sea, lies a group of low coral islands whose people have become famous far beyond

Some places earn their fame twice. Troy earned it first as a story whispered across three thousand years, and then again as a low, wind-scoured mound in northwestern Turkey where

Trysa Ancient City is located in the east of the plateau near the village of Davazlar on the Kaş-Kale road. Its name is not found in any of the ancient

On a great hill wrapped almost entirely by a loop of the Yantra River, in the beautiful town of Veliko Tarnovo in northern Bulgaria, stands one of the most important

Along the misty northern coast of British Columbia, where the Skeena and Nass rivers pour out of the mountains toward the sea, the Tsimshian nations built a society of great

Tsurugaoka Hachimangu is the spiritual and historical centre of Kamakura, founded by the Minamoto clan who made the city Japan’s first samurai capital. Its broad approach and vermilion halls give

Across the dry western plateau of southern Africa, from the sands of the Kalahari to the plains of the North West, live the Batswana, a Sotho-Tswana people of cattle-herders and

In the green valleys of eastern Qinghai, where the loess hills of the northwest give way to the edge of the Tibetan plateau, live the Tu, a settled farming people

The largest desert on earth looks empty on the map, and for a thousand years that emptiness had owners. The Tuareg, veiled Berber camel lords of the central Sahara, taxed

In the far northwest of the Amazon, along the blackwater rivers of the Vaupes where Brazil meets Colombia, live the Tucano and a mosaic of related peoples who together form