It’s a far cry from the violent historical image of Japan’s warrior class, as projected in the Hagakure, the 17th-century samurai Yamamoto Tsunetomo’s classic guide to martial conduct. But in recent ...

A new exhibit highlighting Hawaiian history just opened to rave reviews at the British Museum in London. The Conversation's Catherine Cruz was there for its opening reception.

Richard Linklater pens a love letter to the greats of French cinema, and the satirical panel show finds a new home ...

Novelist Charlotte Mendelson explores an institution that holds the history of humanity — and, on any given day, a curious cross-section of the capital itself ...

Novelist Charlotte Mendelson explores an institution that holds the history of humanity — and, on any given day, a curious cross-section of the capital itself ...

The Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs offered magical protection to people in this life and the afterlife, and inscribed the signs on monuments, statues, funerary objects, and papyri.

Hisyo Ishida is looking at me with undisguised disappointment. I cannot blame him. His movements are sharp where mine are clumsy. His hair is pulled into a neat topknot where mine is flapping in my ...

Two workers employed as underground guides at the museum gave interviews. Both had formerly worked as miners at the UK’s last ...

After Southampton came last in our ranking of UK cities, locals – including an MP – urged us to give it another shot. Here’s ...

CODE breakers could win a gold bar worth up to £29,000 by cracking a series of ground-breaking challenges. The Royal Mint has ...

And while Beau Nash’s (the 18th century dandy dubbed the King of Bath) handsome city continues to dine off the ‘Lady ...

People searching for honey in Mozambique work with birds via a shared language in a rare case of cooperation between humans ...