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Simon Norfolk

Simon Norfolk is an award-winning photographer who specializes in landscapes that were once sites of violence.

Stories from this author

The Tugunbulak settlement was inhabited between the 6th and 11th centuries. 

Archaeologists May Have Found the Lost Iron City of the Silk Road in the Remote Highlands of Uzbekistan

Researchers are uncovering what they think is the metropolis of Marsmanda, an iron-making city that could rewrite the history of the famed trade route

France has some 280 burial grounds for men killed in Somme combat, including the Lonsdale Cemetery in Authuille.

A Bold New History of the Battle of the Somme

British generals have long been seen as the bunglers of the deadly conflict, but a revisionist look argues that a U.S. general was the real donkey