History

An Egyptologist retells the myth of Osiris, Isis and Horus, the story that made Abydos the most sacred place in ancient Egypt.

Why Nairobi deserves a night of its own: the hotels, railway, museums and national park that tell the story of Kenya before the safari begins.

Great Zimbabwe, Lalibela, Timbuktu, Aksum. The sites are not obscure. What is worth knowing is how hard some scholarship worked to explain them away.