Back to the future at Bali’s first luxury hotel
In 1963, Indonesia’s founding President Sukarno commissioned the first five-star hotel in Bali using money from Japanese ...
Lovers, famous and infamous
Legends surround love, that crazy feeling that can inspire the most beautiful songs, but also the most terrible wars. History is full of famous love stories.The most famous gay couple of antiquity ...
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David J Black: Robert Burns – the Hollywood sensation that never was
Statue of Burns in Dumfries town centre, unveiled in 1882. David J Black reminds us just how famous Burns was. See part one ...
Cleveland Museum to Return Prized Bronze Thought Looted From Turkey
The museum dropped a legal effort to block the seizure of the statue by investigators who said the bronze, thought by some to ...
Long-Buried Secret Exposed Under 16th-Century Titian Painting Of Jesus
Advanced digital imaging reveals a portrait of an unknown man beneath "Ecce Homo," an oil painting by renowned Renaissance ...
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Etruscan Tomb Discovered in Italy
According to a Live Science report, a 2,500-year-old Etruscan tomb decorated with wall paintings has been uncovered in ...
12 Hotels Opening This Year Worth Planning an Entire Trip Around
Afar's resident hotel expert uncovers 12 of the most alluring new and renovated hotels of 2025, from California to Indonesia.