Visitors could be forgiven for thinking it’s a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.
For the abandoned citadel of Guermassa in Tunisia sits in an otherworldly landscape redolent of the environs of Star Wars’ Tatooine.
This is not a coincidence: nearby Tataouine city – the capital of the Tataouine Governate – provided the architectural inspiration for Luke Skywalker’s home planet, if not the shooting location (that’s Matmata, in the north east).
Guermassa itself is the name of
Ancient Egypt has provided the world with a wealth of knowledge since archaeologists began digging up
The fertile Nile Delta region is home to a range or civilisations which have all risen and fallen one after the other, their lives spanning thousands of years.
Perhaps best-known is the period in which so-called great pharaohs ruled over Egypt, including figures like Djoser, Khufu, Akhenaten, Tutankhamun, and Ramses II.
By the end of the 1800s, most of the tombs of the greats
An Australian mother has shared the horror of discovering a skin cancer lesion on her scalp and how it changed her life forever.
Danielle McClune, 58, who lives in Brisbane, was 40 when she noticed a sore that wouldn’t heal on the top of her head.
She showed it to a GP, who thought it was a tick bite. She left it for six months before having it checked again.
This time a biopsy revealed it was a basal cell
“Dear Sir,” the letter from Lord Sandwich to the English naturalist Joseph Banks began, “poor Captain Cooke is no more.” That was about all the Earl or anyone else could say with certainty, since word of the explorer’s demise had only just reached England’s shores, nearly a year after he died on the black-sand beach of Kealakekua Bay, on the island of Hawaii, on Valentine’s Day, 1779. Yet the passage of time did not clarify the matter: although thousands witnessed
