Between the 16th and 19th centuries, as many as a thousand slave ships carrying captive Africans sank while crossing the Atlantic Ocean. National Geographic explorer and writer Tara Roberts has been ...

During the pre- and colonial era, the Sea People were not passive victims but active naval forces – strengthening and defending local monarchies (sultanates and kingdoms) in the Sulu Archipelago, ...

In big, bold letters, a message for the citizens of the mountain: THEY’RE LYING TO YOU. Oh, it is so on. • That scene in ...

If we read Ditlevsen’s poems through the lens of Lessing, you could say that Ditlevsen’s so-called sentimentality is a poetic anachronism that functions as a subversive tool, an anachronism on a par ...

In the Italian city where James Joyce wrote 'Ulysses,' the bookstore that Jewish poet Umberto Saba opened in 1919 has come ...

The items include poetry, sermons, songs and previously unknown ... He said: "An awful lot of Gaelic manuscripts had been lost over the centuries, for example at sea when people were travelling. "But ...

We know the cast of Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, but not their roles. These are our best guesses at who will play who in ...

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He then asked that this poem and ... children lost their lives attempting to cross the Mediterranean in 2024 alone. Since 2014, more than 31,000 migrants have drowned or gone missing during the ...

Damage to an underwater fibre optic cable in the Baltic Sea, running from Ventspils in Latvia, to the Swedish island of Gotland, was detected last Sunday. Image: Pic: Reuters "It is suspected that ...

Our Poetry Book of the Month reviews include two ... the streets where they lived, a whole lost world that seems somehow still present. She’s interested in writing about what is commonly called ...

The partially-visible fresco, identified by Cambridge University historian Dr Federica Gigante, almost certainly depicts a real tent, now lost, which the artist may have seen in the same church.