A booming market has specimen hunters tracking down rare new varieties of the ancient fruit By Jacob Roberts Photographs by Christie Hemm Klok David and Priscilla Burke's daughter Aoibheann with a ...

How did we come to use fig leaves to cover naked figures in art? The tale of the fig leaf is part of the long history of censorship in art. Those who love Instagram know that there are strict ...

Considered by historians to be the first of the domesticated crops, figs (Ficus carica) have long been part of the cultivated diet of humans, according to evidence that stretches back more than five ...