A series exploring ten of the world’s most fascinating and overlooked peoples, from the Arctic Sami to the Mari keepers of the sacred groves.

Some fortresses are remembered for the battles they fought, but Fort Cornwallis is remembered for the city it created. Standing at the northeastern tip of Penang island in Malaysia, this

On the island of Mombasa, on the Indian Ocean coast of Kenya, stands one of the most remarkable fortresses of the age of European expansion: Fort Jesus, a mighty Portuguese

Most people would not expect to find a British fortress in Indonesia, a land ruled for centuries by the Dutch, and that is exactly what makes Fort Marlborough so surprising

Some fortresses hide a second, older fortress within their walls, and Fort Rotterdam is one of them. Standing on the waterfront of Makassar on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, this

Some monuments are great in size, and some are great in significance, and Fort San Pedro in the city of Cebu belongs firmly to the second kind. The oldest and

Some fortresses are remembered for the battles fought at their walls, but Fort Santiago is remembered above all for what happened within them. Standing at the mouth of the Pasig

The Rajasthani people of northwest India, the Rajput warrior clans, the Marwari merchants, the Thar desert, the great hill forts, folk culture, and the legacy of the Land of Kings.

With no common language, faith, or founding people, the Swiss built one of the world’s most stable and prosperous nations on a shared idea of self-government and neutrality.

Atop three mesas in the Arizona high desert, the Hopi have farmed corn without irrigation for over a thousand years, following an emergence story that treats this world as the