William Dalrymple gives us a near-complete idea of how central India was to everything that happened in the ancient world ...

Borobudur is a massive 2,500 square meter Buddhist temple complex in Central Java dated ... I've actually written a great deal about this (ancient India) in art history and journalism over ...

Mongolian leaders say they want to build a new city close to the ancient ruins of Kharkhorum and make it their new seat of ...

Candi Muarajambi is one of the largest Buddhist temple compounds in the world. Built by a former civilization, the complex continues to intrigue scholars from various disciplines.

The show at the British Library is entitled A Silk Road Oasis: Life in Ancient Dunhuang and focuses on the extraordinary haul of ancient documents found in the Mogao Buddhist ... the great epic poem ...

In March 2022, a team of archaeologists was excavating a newly discovered temple of the Egyptian ... and cooks at work in the great Persian palaces. An early Buddhist Jataka tale of this period ...

What Greece was first to Rome, then to the rest of the Mediterranean and European World,” argues Dalrymple, “so at this ...

Kobe is among the biggest cities in Japan that will have a population of 1.5 million residents in 2020. The city is deemed ...

If you prefer culture over calderas, consider flying to one of Indonesia’s lesser-known cities. Makassar is the largest city on Sulawesi island and served by three Singapore Airlines flights a week ...

In all religious traditions, light, an emblem of divine goodness, seems to be in perennial conflict with, before finally ...

“Ramayana” itself is a great example of this ... Polynesian word referring to a one-room arrangement), alongside Buddhist temples. In the Philippines wood architecture was dominant, so ...

These versions can be found in China, Japan, Iran, Indonesia, and Cambodia ... Scenes from the epic appear as temple ...