Arts & Culture

Why was an Egyptian mummy stuffed with a fragment of Homer’s Iliad?

13 May 2026
What a list of Black Death survivors reveals about the way people recovered from plague

13 May 2026
We tested the new World Cup ball – this is what you need to know about how it will fly, dip and swerve

13 May 2026
We found hundreds of huge ancient mass graves hidden in the Sahara desert

13 May 2026
How World Cup filming has evolved since the last US tournament – from spider cameras to AI and drones

12 May 2026
Fenian: the anti-Irish history behind Kneecap’s defiant new album title

11 May 2026
Motown’s Black women songwriters and producers were the invisible architects behind the pop music juggernaut

9 May 2026
Ted Turner didn’t just revolutionize television − he changed the way we see our world

9 May 2026
In the age of AI, human creative output is becoming a luxury

7 May 2026
The method in Iran’s madness? Closure of Strait of Hormuz echoes a centuries-old Danish play − and is a tragedy for the world order

7 May 2026