For nearly a thousand years from about 600 BCE onwards, travellers and pilgrims came from all over the Mediterranean world to the remote, windswept island of Samothrace to be initiated into the mystery cult of the Great gods.

For some 2,000 years, the ancient Lycian people controlled a huge area along a 1,000 km stretch of the southwestern coast of Asia Minor. Explore the fascinating history of their culture.

The tranquil atmosphere of the small Adriatic city of Ravenna as it appears today belies its important role during one of Western history’s principal watersheds: the collapse of the Roman Empire in the West.

Constantine, the city of bridges has been occupied at various times by the Phoenicians, Romans, Arabs, Ottomans and French

A fascinating and mysterious culture developed during the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age periods on the Cyclades islands in the central Aegean Sea, known today only as the Cycladic Culture.

East Anglia is bordered on all sides by formidable barriers — the North Sea to the east and north, the …