History

Discover the story of Lady Evelyn Herbert, the first and only woman to enter, at the age of 21, the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun when it was discovered by Howard Carter in November 1922.

Go back to the 18th century and let yourself be amazed by masks and elegant costumes in a unique experience enjoying the Carnival of Venice.

This is the story of Josephine Peary, the first woman who took part in an expedition to the Arctic in 1891, lived with the Inuit, gave birth on the ice, and discovered that Greenland was an island.

Can you imagine spending 24 hours locked in a train, stuck in the middle of nowhere in the 1920s, with no electricity, no cell phone, and no wi-fi? How would you feel? What would you do?

At the end of the 18th century, Italy was the epitome of an initiation journey known as "Le Grand Tour" for the young European nobility.

Osa Johnson and her husband, Martin Johnson, were the pioneers of nature documentaries in the 1930s. As explorers and companions, their lives were a true adventure.

Did you know that the world's first airline had no airplanes? On November 16, 1909, DELAG, the German Airship Company, was established. Its first flight was made by the Bodensee airship between Berlin and Friedrichshafen.

Radhika Hettiarachchi is an activist, and in 2012, she started a project to give a voice to hundreds of women who lost their children in the civil war that ravaged Sri Lanka. We spoke with her in Colombo, her hometown.