MRT’s Fred Gold discusses what makes our History & Art on the Danube cruise so special. From exclusive private visits to Budapest’s Matthias Church and The Upper Belvedere in Vienna, to expertise from Gavin Plumley, Veronica Buckley and Philip Blom, find out more about this cruise on our website. | Martin Randall Travel

For much of modern history, China was isolated from global scientific exchange. As the country opened to the world, new discoveries emerged... including evidence that China, like every region of Earth, bears scars from violent encounters with celestial debris. A recent study highlights hypervelocity impacts identified only in the last decade and a half, impacts once unknown because the findings were not publicly shared. China’s vast landscape is now revealing astroblemes and crater structures th

200,000 years of human history… shaken again and again by forces beyond our control. During the last glacial maximum, sea levels dropped 400 feet as oceans froze into vast ice sheets. Whole landscapes were reshaped, water cycles broken, and the Earth’s very shape distorted under the weight. Every melt and freeze was a cosmic heartbeat — a reminder that civilization rises and falls in rhythm with powers far greater than us. | The Randall Carlson

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The question Randall keeps returning to is deceptively simple. Why? What is the motive for quarrying and assembling 20 ton stones into monumental structures?In a world where virtually all of humanity was either farming or nomadically hunting and gathering, megalithic construction is not a natural cultural priority. Survival is. Feeding people is. Moving with the seasons is. Dragging enormous blocks of stone across landscapes and assembling them with precision is not something subsistence culture