The 2,700 year old sculpture that guarded the gates of one of antiquity's fabled cities
Published on Tuesday, 23rd June 2020.
Inside the ruin of Brazil’s National Museum – and the struggle to revive it
Published on Sunday, 1st September 2019.
Rabindranath Tagore was the world's first Asian Nobel Laureate - but his medal was stolen
Published on Wednesday, 26th July 2017.
The ruin and rebuilding of Ziarat residency, where Pakistan’s founder spent his last days
Published on Tuesday, 25th July 2017.
The creation and capture of Mughal India’s coveted Peacock Throne
Published on Monday, 24th July 2017.
In search of Peshawar’s lost Buddhist past
Published on Saturday, 22nd July 2017.
Even cricket was partitioned in 1947
Published on Friday, 21st July 2017.
The conflict in Kashmir told through the life and times of a burnt-out movie theatre
Published on Tuesday, 18th July 2017.
India and Pakistan's tussle for Indus Valley antiquities after partition
Published on Saturday, 15th July 2017.
What’s left of the ancient archaeological sites of northern Iraq?
Published on Saturday, 10th June 2017.
One man's extraordinary quest to find out what became of his home in Aleppo's old town.
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Published on Wednesday, 24th May 2017.
In search of a Sumerian goddess, and the pillaging of Iraq's most important museum
Published on Monday, 7th March 2016.
A shrine to the 1915 Armenian massacres, made from human bones in the Syrian desert
On the murky trail of a missing genie, last seen in the ancient Assyrian palace of Nimrud
Why was the bust of a blind, vegetarian, medieval poet the casualty of Syria's modern war?
The legends of a shrine, revered by both Christians and Muslims for hundreds of years
The fearsome 2,000 year old statue, regarded as one of the symbols of Palmyra
Published on Monday, 29th February 2016.
The unique minaret of Aleppo's Great Mosque, which is now only a waterfall of rubble.
The ancient hill in western Syria that became a modern battleground
One of Palmyra's most iconic structures, and the man who gave his life to protect the city