The Edithorial

Cutting Medea-themed Cake with Prof Darchia I’ve been Tbilisi to lecture on the most famous female Georgian of all time, Medea—sorcere...

Siberian Scythians' Self-Portrait, c. 400 BCE It has been Week of the Nomad. The new British Museum Scythians exhibition is revel...

The Etonian MP Jacob Rees-Mogg, who claims to have become a Tory at the age of five, and has burdened his own sixth child with the name ‘S...

John Hume, a disgrace to his species The older I get, the more I am moved by the plight of other fauna on the planet in the face of hu...

23 August is the annual International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition. UNESCO chose the date because it ma...

August 13 th is the 28 th International Left-Handers’ Day.  The usual journalistic response is to point out the disproportionate number ...

It’s been Phoenician-Carthaginian Week for me, culminating last night at the Proms in a BBC debate on ancient mariners with archa...