Volume 68 Issue 1 January 2018

The Phoenicians were the great maritime traders of the ancient Mediterranean.

An aerial view of a hydraulic system that pumped fresh water into the monastic complex.

Women had few powers in Ancient Greece – except in death.

Uzbekistan, from Silk Road to Soviet Union.

Child genius, engineer, inventor and physicist, Nikola Tesla died on 7 January 1943.

Before the British Empire and the Atlantic slave trade, Africans lived freely in Tudor England.

The pain of war had at least one positive side-effect: medical advances in haematology.

The grand funeral of Anne of Cleves, the neglected fourth queen of Henry VIII, took place during the reign of Mary Tudor, when English Catholicism was resurgent.

At the beginning of the 20th century the Great Powers competed for the right to extract the vast oil reserves around the Iraqi city of Mosul. The motivation – and prize – was energy security.