While US and Israeli fire threatened some of Iran’s most cherished cultural relics, scores of Persian artefacts were safe and ...

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

A recent archaeological excavation in northwest China has uncovered a 3,000-year-old burial site containing deliberately broken bronze weapons, offering a remarkable glimpse into ancient attitudes ...

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 ...

From historic stone steles to thousand-year-old trees, from the Rongguo Mansion to the ancient city walls, the weight of ...

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 ...

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 ...