History

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A letter to … my father who is now younger than me
‘Today, I am the same age as you on the day you died. And absence is the distance between you and me.’
Published On 18 May 2022
Interactive: Explore Sudan’s pyramids of Meroe
The largest Nubian pyramids built over two thousand years ago can be seen in a new augmented reality experience.
Published On 17 May 2022
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The Hopi farmer championing Indigenous agricultural knowledge
How millennia of Native American land practices can provide valuable lessons for growing food and sustaining the Earth.
Published On 15 May 2022
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For Vietnam’s fishermen, whales are gods of the southern sea
Within shoreline communities, tales of cetacean altruism are at the heart of a centuries-old tradition of whale worship.
Published On 10 May 2022

Russia will celebrate the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany as its new war on Ukraine rages.

Four songs from Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and Iraq reveal a rich source of stories from the Arabian Gulf.

Report by oldest US university lays out history of slavery on campus and its role in perpetuating racial oppression.

Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah and writer Nana Oforiatta Ayim on the consequences of centuries of colonialism.

Sarangi, which sounds like the human voice, is difficult to master and offers little financial reward to professionals.

At no cost, Andrew Silva, 56, spends his free time helping international adoptees reconnect with their birth mothers.

From colonial luxury to killing fields, Le Phnom was a haven for journalists reporting on the Cambodian civil war.

Lost in 1915, the Endurance was discovered in Antarctica’s Weddell Sea by a group of explorers.

Putin may have anticipated a repeat of Russia’s seizure of Crimea, but what we have seen is more similar to Chechnya.

For those who survived the Bosnian war of 1992-1995, the war in Ukraine feels too familiar.

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