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Often overshadowed by its neighbour Yogyakarta, Surakarta – commonly known as Solo – is a treasure trove of Javanese culture ...

Architecture firm the Brooklyn Studio and interior designer Augusta Hoffman teamed up to realize the clients’ detailed vision ...

As funding for arts nonprofits gets eliminated by a hideous regime, arts events become more precious than ever. Vibrant ...

Some city hotels are a place to crash after a long day of museum-hopping and restaurant reservations. These ones are so much ...

Many mysteries remain about five murals painted at Port Arthur during a tourism boom in the 1880s, but it's hoped ...

Explore the seven wonders of the Mediterranean, one city at a time, or - better still - as part of a cruise.

Italian depiction of the god Mercury (Greek: Hermes) wearing a petasos, a wide-brimmed ancient Greek hat. Credit: Sailko / Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 When one thinks of ancient Greece, the ...

Greek yogurt, a creamy, protein-packed strained yogurt, is crafted by fermenting milk with live bacterial cultures and straining out whey and lactose. This process yields a thicker texture and higher ...

Pearl divers in Kuwait used to make music with a complex rhythmic pattern, but when Kuwait banned pearl diving in 1955, the music stopped with it. That captured the imagination of Ghazi Faisal ...

The lecture hall was discovered during excavations at Agrigento, the site of the largest ancient Greek settlement in Sicily. Photo by Thomas Lappi and Monika Trümper, FU Berlin, Institute of ...