NPR's Scott Simon speaks to historian William Dalrymple about his latest book, "The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World." ...

The following decades were shaped by state repression, social discrimination and the erosion of the city’s Islamic culture ...

Americans once associated spheres of influence with a cynical, volatile European past. Now Washington is resurrecting them.

Focus on the history of the ancient ‘Silk Road’ may have overshadowed the powerful influence of India on the many cultures ...

One of the world’s most famous religious buildings, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia was extraordinary when it was built in the sixth century, and with a history surrounded in myth, legend and controversy, it ...

A stretch of Winnipeg's Disraeli Freeway has been given an honorary name to celebrate an iconic Canadian band that helped put Winnipeg on the rock 'n' roll map. The southernmost portion of street, ...

World Homeopathy Day 2025: Observed annually on April 10, World Homeopathy Day commemorates the birth anniversary of Dr Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann, the German physician who founded ...

It has been sacked by Mongols and destroyed by plagues and wars; it was the site of the first suicide attack in history; and it was inhabited ... a threat to Israel during this time. When the Assyrian ...

At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground ... black markets and other economic problems. As the Roman Empire expanded and became richer, its wealthy citizens ...

(AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) WASHINGTON (AP) — Books on the Holocaust, histories of feminism, civil rights and racism, and Maya Angelou’s famous autobiography, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” were ...

In 1911, the explorer Gertrude Bell visited the German excavations at Ashur, the founding capital of the Assyrian empire ... Bell imagined “the history of Asia . . . spread out before me.

Five-year-old Ronin has been named the most successful Mine Detection Rat (MDR) in the organisation's history. "His exceptional accomplishments have earned him the Guinness World Records title for ...