A Japanese boy dreamed of nothing but becoming a famous karateka. His family, however, would not allow it. Then one day, in an unfortunate accident, the boy lost his left

For seventy-two extraordinary days in the spring of 1871, the city of Paris governed itself. The national government had fled, the regular army had withdrawn, and into the vacuum stepped

For more than eight hundred years, people have been walking to Canterbury. In the Middle Ages they came in their thousands, by foot and on horseback, to pray at the

The great Indian thinker and spiritual teacher J. Krishnamurti spent more than fifty years travelling the world, striving to put into words a message that words could never quite contain.

Source: Pixabay If Mecca is the city toward which Muslims pray, Medina is the city where the early Muslim community took shape. Lying a few hundred kilometres to the north,

In the heart of Rome stands a real ancient Egyptian-style pyramid. The strange story of Gaius Cestius, Rome’s obsession with Egypt, and how the walls of the city saved it.

“Man is born with dignity. And no man needs the honor of queens!” Sembène was awarded the British Royal Family Special Honor Award in 1997. The 74-year-old writer attended the

Every “Harappan” artifact, every reference to the “Harappan civilization” in a textbook, traces back to a single mound beside the Ravi River in Pakistani Punjab where British engineers, laying railway

Source: Pixabay For many travellers, the Registan in Samarkand is the single most spectacular sight in all of Central Asia. Three vast theological colleges, their facades sheathed in turquoise and

The historian and philosopher Will Durant once described his long search for happiness. He looked for it in knowledge, and found only disillusionment. He looked for it in travel, and