No other ancient historian has written a book so insightful on the mechanisms of war as Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War.

In Europe, a staggering three quarters of Germans and French view China unfavorably.” Compounding today’s multipolar mistrust, Westad argues, is a widespread ignorance of the true “intensity and scale ...

Notes from Central Taiwan is a column written by long-term resident Michael Turton, who provides incisive commentary informed by three decades of living in and writing about his adoptive country. The ...

Coined by German philosopher Karl Jaspers, the "Axial Age" refers to the period roughly between 800 and 200 BC, when major ...

From porcelains at the Lamu Museum in Lamu Island to a family tracing their ancestry to Chinese sailors in the historical ...

A group of researchers at New York University has developed a new type of gear system that uses fluid motion to produce ...

Today UNESCO designated 12 new geoparks, bringing the total number of sites in the UNESCO Global Geopark Network to 241 in 51 countries. The network ...

The 12 newly designated geoparks are located in China, France, Greece, Ireland, Japan, Malaysia, Portugal, the Russian Federation, Tunisia – marking its first geopark – and Uruguay. Every rock ...

The ancient world was shaped by these routes; merchants, priests, and saints travelled along them. The Spice Route and the ...

Following the worst mass extinction event on Earth, the land was not entirely barren of life. In the wake of this cataclysm, ...

Six hundred and sixty years ago, under the order of Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), an ...

Orofacial clefts (OC; cleft lips and/or palates) require intense care immediately after birth and can lead to lifelong ...