The ancient Egyptian underworld
The earliest funerary texts we have are the Old Kingdom Pyramid Texts and unlike later texts they did not include images, consisting purely of hieroglyphic...
River of the Gods by Candice Millard
“The Romans had an expression to describe an outrageously impossible task,” Facilius sit Nili caput invenire: it would be easier to find the source of...
British Museum
RICHARD JEFFERIES contrasted the pigeons outside the British Museum (‘To them the building is merely a rock, pierced with convenient caverns’) with the humans vainly...
THE PRINCESS OF WALES
Surrounded by giddy children, the Princess of Wales had a ball as she joined in with a colourful arts and crafts session during a visit...
a road trip across New Zealand’s South Island
Road-tripping across America can mean “long, high-mileage days crossing vast distances”, But New Zealand’s “wild and rustic” South Island offers “comparable natural grandeur, with much...
CARLEY STENSON
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW ,WITH HUSBAND DANNY MAC, ‘DANCING ON ICE’ STAR CARLEY STENSON ON LOVE, FAMILY LIFE AND SKATING TO MAKE THEIR LITTLE GIRL SKYE PROUD....
Taking it slowly in the land of the sloth
Many tourists come to Costa Rica hoping to spot a sloth, says Kate Wickers in The Mail on Sunday. It’s certainly a good place for...
Stalingrad
Eighty years after it ended, the Battle of Stalingrad remains a byword for the horror of modern warfare Why is the battle so important?The Battle...
Tough Guy by Richard Bradford
Norman Mailer, the subject of Richard Bradford’s “lively” biography, was “everything we have learnt to despise in the 21st century”, Born to Lithuanian Jewish parents...