While innovative and artistic board games may hold our attention today, settlers four millennia ago in the Arabian Peninsula whiled away the time on a stone board game. Last month, archaeologists...

Germany’s new culture minister, Claudia Roth, has taken office pledging to continue her predecessor’s work in decolonising museums, to set up a central “green culture” desk, to boost funding for the...

Deep in the Sahara desert, in the North West African nation of Mauritania lies the oasis city of Chinguetti. Founded in the eleventh century, the city stood at the cross roads of the old trans-Saharan...