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AROUND the province of Malaga there are villages with less residents than in a block of flats in a big city.

The thrill of the open road beckons us, again and again: this time, to the best scenic drives across Spain.

Discovered in a crumbling desert castle in Jordan, a fresco known as the Six Kings of the Earth provides a curious glimpse into the medieval Islamic world.

Scissors or Sword? The Symbolism of a Medieval Haircut Simon Coates explores the symbolic meanings attached to hair in the early medieval West, and how it served to denote differences in age, sex, ethnicity and status. Whilst residing in Paris in the sixth century, Queen Clotild, the widow of the Merovingian ruler Clovis, became the unwilling subject of the inveterate plotting of her sons, Lothar and Childebert, who were jealous of her guardianship of her grandsons, the children of thei...