The most numerous people of Central Asia, the Uzbeks are heirs to the Silk Road cities of Samarkand and Bukhara, blending Turkic and Persian worlds into a great settled civilisation.

A Turkic people of the Amu Darya delta, the Karakalpaks lived between herding, fishing, and farming on the shores of the Aral Sea, whose drying became one of the world’s great environmental tragedies.

The story of the Tatars, the largest Muslim and Turkic people of Russia, from Volga Bulgaria and the Golden Horde to the modern republic of Tatarstan on the Volga.

Among the oldest and most numerous indigenous peoples of Nepal, the Magar of the western hills blend Hindu, Buddhist, and shamanic traditions, the Maruni dance, and a famed martial heritage.

Partitioned out of existence, occupied, and devastated, the Poles preserved their language, faith, and identity through every catastrophe, a study in survival and an unyielding love of freedom.

Across the arid mesas and river valleys of the American Southwest, the Pueblo peoples have maintained one of the oldest continuous ways of life in North America. Living in compact

On the shores of a lake ringed by volcanic hills in the highlands of what is now Michoacán, a Mesoamerican state grew powerful enough to do something almost no other

High in the pine-covered mountains of northwestern Guatemala, near the Mexican border and among the loftiest ranges in Central America, lives a Maya people whose story bridges two worlds. The

In the rain-drenched mountains of northern Guatemala lives a Maya people whose story runs against the grain of much Indigenous history. Where many native languages retreat, theirs advances; where many

From the cave painters of the south to the Revolution that proclaimed the rights of man, the French built one of the supreme civilizations of Europe. An honest, in-depth portrait.