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From medieval beginnings, the samurai have inspired art, fiction and films, from Shōgun to Star Wars. But their true story is more complex and surprising than we might realise.

From candlelit mansions to ghostly art tours, the Big Apple is teeming with places that reveal its haunted history.

In the Dolomites, mountaineering legend Reinhold Messner has turned his life story into a collection of high-altitude museums.

Marie Curie worked with radioactive material with her bare hands. More than 100 years later, Sophie Hardach travels to Paris to trace the radioactive fingerprints she left behind.

How social media is pushing back against the still common idea that African societies never had a knowledge system.

Recent changes by the Trump administration are affecting how US museums and institutions tell the nation's multicultural history to travellers.

The world's only museum dedicated to the history and culture of the Gulf of Mexico may be in hot water following Trump's decision to change the name of the planet's largest gulf.