Bihar has long been a meeting point of spiritual and intellectual movements that changed the course of Asian history. Read on ...

Historians are occasionally forced to revise their preconceived notions after discovering something hidden in the shadows and ...

India is a treasure trove of history, with monuments that have withstood the test of time and witnessed the rise and fall of ...

ERCIŞ, TURKEY—According to a Hürriyet Daily News report, six inscriptions written in Aramaic have been discovered at Zernaki Tepe, the site of a 3,000-year-old walled city in eastern Turkey's Van ...

Daylight Saving Time ends this weekend, and I’ll admit: I’m not a fan of the early sunsets that come with it. Darkness falling at 5 p.m. makes me feel like the evening is over before it begins. But as ...

Vienna developed from early Celtic and Roman settlements into a Medieval and Baroque city, the capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It played an essential role as a leading European music centre, ...

As the first capital of Brazil, from 1549 to 1763, Salvador de Bahia witnessed the blending of European, African and Amerindian cultures. It was also, from 1558, the first slave market in the New ...