Lapis lazuli, valued like gold, has a rich 6,000-year history. Its primary source is Afghanistan's Badakhshan province, where ...

The more concrete evidence of the formation of a distinct community can be traced back to the British colonial period ...

The Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, M.K. Stalin, has offered a $1 million reward to anyone who can successfully decipher the ...

Hearts Of Iron IV is a strategy game that challenges players to face the brutal conflict of World War II in a multifaceted ...

Excerpt: Once cherished by ancient civilisations from Egypt to Mesopotamia, lapis lazuli, often dubbed "blue gold," continues ...

Hello from Free Syria. I’m in Damascus right now. It’s a beautiful winter. Everything is better than before,” Ayoub Alsmadi, ...

Pakistan has thanked Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council Jan Egeland for drawing attention to the humanitarian predicament of Afghanistan. In a statement, the Foreign Office said that ...

No thread is brighter than that connecting East and West. The exchange of ideas, trade, and philosophies has shaped our world ...

The story is similar for each of the families I visit in Anachere, a community of about 90 members of the ancient Tsimane ... the Pamir Mountains in northern Afghanistan live at a high altitude ...

It is most often associated with pottery, which has many years of history worldwide. Less well-known are the musical instruments made of clay. They have been played in China since the Zhou dynasty ...

Dr Upul Wijayawardhana How would the Buddha have looked like in real life?” This question was posed by Prof. Asanga Thilakaratna, the Chief Editor of the Encyclopaedia of Buddhism, during one of the ...

As the de facto ruler of Damascus, HTS has attempted to rebrand itself as a moderate group capable of governance, seeking to distance itself from its history of extremism and terrorism. However, Syria ...