In May 1882, some of the world's best astronomers travelled to Sohag in Upper Egypt to watch a total solar eclipse, and came home with photographs of a comet that nobody had ever seen before and nobody would ever see again.
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In May 1882, some of the world's best astronomers travelled to Sohag in Upper Egypt to watch a total solar eclipse, and came home with photographs of a comet that nobody had ever seen before and nobody would ever see again.
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Read full storyEvery country we cover eventually raises the same question: has anyone actually written anything good about this place? With Moldova, the list is relatively short but pleasantly surprising.
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Read full storyI first visited Moldova and Transnistria in January 2006, as part of a wider trip that took me through Ukraine and across the Caspian on a freight ship. My most recent visit was rather different, with a wife and two small children in tow and considerably better weather. Here is what twenty years of change actually looks like on the ground.
Read full storyDamascus is mentioned in the Bible several times, even before Saul's conversion in the New Testament. Here's what the Bible actually says, and what you can still see in the city today.
Read full storyKathmandu is packed with UNESCO World Heritage Sites, from sacred Hindu temples to giant Buddhist stupas. Here's a guide to the capital's most extraordinary sights.
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