A stunning and informative graphic from the National Post. Why are we doing this? How can we possibly afford it? Over to you, Bill Kauffman. This is a good place to commend to you my TAC colleague ...

Over the period, McConnell estimates that the empire released more than half a million tonnes of lead into the atmosphere. To work out what impact the pollution might have had, the scientists turned ...

IndiGo, India’s undisputed leader in terms of domestic air travel is all set to launch new routes to West Europe, way ahead of its plans. The airline was planning to commence long-haul routes to ...

By 1453, it had destroyed what remained of the Byzantine Empire. At its height, the Ottoman Empire stretched from the majority of southeastern Europe to Vienna (pictured: “The Second Siege of Vienna” ...

Public Domain Monemvasia, on the southeastern shores of the Peloponnese, Greece is Europe’s oldest continuously inhabited ... VIII Palaiologos as part of William’s ransom. Map of Monemvasia made by F.

The study also employed advanced atmospheric transport models to estimate how lead emissions spread across the Empire. Results revealed two possible scenarios: one where emissions were concentrated in ...

In 1453, after his artillery corps reduced the thousand-year-old walls of Constantinople to rubble, Sultan Mehmet II claimed the city for the Ottoman Empire. Europe named the metal tubes that ...