The Hagia Sophia remains a highly popular tourist destination, attracting millions of travelers. Here is a detailed look at ...

For decades, the small sultanate of Oman has lured travelers with its deep ties to tradition and its tranquil desert quarter. Now it’s ready to face the future, thanks to an influx of new luxury ...

The book is essentially about the "ideas of Lahore ... Today, these shrines, once boasting a syncretic version of synthesis of South Asia's religious faiths, are increasingly policed using ...

when the sea level was so low that Taiwan was linked to Asia by a land bridge. But in 2010, a Taiwanese paleontologist was presented with a particularly odd find: a fossil that looked like half a ...

As the ancient Parsi community dwindles, the youth are leaving while adding more loss to Pakistan's ageing Zoroastrian Parsi people, a community that traces its roots back to Persian refugees from ...

The ancient Chinese calligraphic scroll by Rao Jie contains an inscription by Emperor Qianlong and his imperial seal.

A collection of books documenting the development of Xizang's social conditions, philosophy, medicine, astronomy, geography, ...

First Ancient Genomes from the Green Sahara Deciphered Apr. 2, 2025 — An international team has sequenced the first ancient genomes from the so-called Green Sahara, a period when the largest ...