He conquered land across three continents, ruled over states from Egypt to modern-day India, and never lost a battle – before ...

TEHRAN - A new museum dedicated to diplomatic relations during the Qajar era has been inaugurated at the UNESCO-listed ...

The devastation of the Altadena and Palisades neighbourhoods this January revealed stark inequalities in the city ...

The palace was the ceremonial hub for the Macedonian ... he led his army into Asia to fulfil Philip’s ambition of conquering the Persian Empire — the largest in the world at that time.

The Acropolis of Athens is one of the most visited world sites, but what stood on top of it before the construction of the ...

T he concept of the paradise garden dates back thousands of years, with historical examples found in Persian, Mughal and ...

Now a bustling capital, this city has remained relatively untouched by modernity and nearly unchanged for the past 300 years.

Murat Palta makes a splash in the Turkish art world by imagining how a 16th-century Ottoman miniaturist would depict the ...

The Governor of Shush has emphasized the importance of promoting the city’s rich cultural heritage and announced plans to ...

The names of foreign places can be filled with an inexplicable magic, as all travellers know, even in an age when this magic ...

After becoming the King of Macedon at the age of 20 in 336 BCE, Alexander spent only two years in Europe. He defeated and ...

Since Islamist rebels overthrew the Assad dictatorship in Syria, Egypt, with parallels in its own recent history, has watched ...