The Jianmenguan scenic spot in Guangyuan, Southwest China's Sichuan Province Photo: Courtesy of the publicity department of ...

One of the big points Dalrymple makes in his book is that India not China was ... traditions especially of the audacious Tamils from ancient times and the Cholas particularly later should convince ...

"Read ten thousand books, and your pen will be guided as if by the gods" is an ancient Chinese idiom that can be seen ... To ...

More than 2,000 years ago, someone drafted a list of what they thought were the seven man-made wonders of the ancient world.

Classical studies scholar Liu Xiaofeng says that the academic progress seen in the study of Western classics will surely help ...

William Dalrymple has spent decades writing about history, but he’s discovered that an even bigger audience wants to hear him ...

Y’all know the olden times — the 1980s and 1990s ... I should mention this one, too: books. My fiction reading lately has largely been detective fiction from the so-called “Golden Age ...

ASTANA – Recently discovered maps reveal new layers of Kazakh statehood, suggesting it could be 12 centuries old, said Mukhit ...

For hundreds of years beginning sometime in the third century BCE, gladiator games provided spectators in the Roman Empire with masses of gory entertainment. When Christianity became the rule of ...

Historians have suggested that the hamburger can be traced back to one of many possible origins, including: ancient Rome; the ...

On the moors near Whitby there are signs and settlements going back thousands of years. These are best seen at Malo Cross.