When I pitched a review of Hà Nội’s massive new Vietnam Military History Museum to the Saigoneer editorial staff, I expected to find the museum somewhat boring. After all, although I am a historian, I ...

When Jessie Burton published The Miniaturist in 2014, it became the fastest-selling debut of the decade, shifting over a ...

A 2,000-year-old Herculaneum scroll buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is filled with lost words that scholars can now ...

More than a quarter million beads found in a tomb with female skeletons were used to decorate the women's ceremonial dresses, ...

A papyrus scroll carbonised by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius two millennia ago is slowly being read once again thanks to ...