What are Yamanote and Shitamachi? Yamanote (山の手) means “mountain’s hand” or “high land”, and it refers to the affluent, upper-class areas of Tokyo...

Here are 10 ways the Vikings are still part of our lives today. Place Names: Normandy and Beyond Many places bear names with Viking roots, with...

Or so people thought. 50 years on the truth was revealed George V’s personal physician Lord Dawson of Penn kept a secret diary and 50 years later...

The year is 1614. The place is Acapulco, Mexico. Hasekura Tsunenaga, a noble warrior from Japan, was on a mission to Europe. He was not alone. Along...

Most ancient sites, like temples and palaces, have been rebuilt or restored over time, sometimes more than once.  Why is that? Edo: The City of Fire...