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.

TEHRAN - Amid the historic and bustling streets of downtown Tehran, where the Grand Bazaar thrives with merchants and ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Dutch Palace, a lesser-known marvel in Kochi, was constructed by the Portuguese in 1555 and later presented to Vira ...