With new resorts and a rich history, the southern state offers the best of Malaysia – without the tourist crowds ...

The city of Iskenderun, also known as Alexandretta, in todays Turkey, was originally founded by Alexander the Great.

Whether through agricultural practices, deforestation, or urbanization, how modern humans use land has had an unprecedented ...

Historical inhabitants of the region that is now Ukraine have had diverse European, Asian and Middle Eastern ancestry for ...

The Chinese government venerates Kumarajiva not only for his contributions to Buddhism but also as a symbol of China’s ...

The ancient populations expanding out of Africa subsequently interbred somewhere in southeast Asia with another group of archaic hominins, the mysterious Denisovans, adding a layer of Denisovan ...

The Tajiks consider themselves the main heirs of the trade routes of centuries ago, of the ‘first Eurasian globalisation’ in ...

A variety of mosquito once thought to have evolved in the tunnels of the London Underground seems to have originated alongside humans thousands of years ago in the Middle East, a genetic analysis ...

The Jordanian capital of Amman is one of the best introductions for travellers looking to explore the Middle East. Like many ...

SCIENTISTS are offering someone $1 million if they can solve a mystery from the Bronze Age. Researchers have long been trying to solve an ancient script from the Indus Valley Civilisation that ...

Ni emphasized that the Denisovans represent one known population of ancient hominins and ... oppose the view that previously known Asian Middle Pleistocene hominins, named or not, are Denisovans ...

Today, the legacy of these ancient celebrations endures. Nowruz remains a widely observed festival, with millions celebrating across Iran, Central Asia, and parts of the Middle East. At the same ...