The Gandhara art persisted until the 7th century and had some influence on the Buddhist sculptures seen in China and other ...

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

Written by the former chief historian of NASA, the book examines the evolution of our cosmic understanding—from early civilizations to the present day ...

"Imaginary Books," an upcoming show at New York's Grolier Club takes a counterfactual tour around the literary universe.

How Ancient India Transformed the World is, therefore, not just about the wonder that was India but its influence on the rest ...

The thinking was that helping lonely people — primarily seniors — to gather with others who shared similar interests would ...

The fascinating history of Sherborne House, the famous names associated with it, and speaks to some very lucky schoolgirls ...

The emperor replied that he was happy for this to be done: There is every reason, my dear Pliny, to cover the ... health in the ancient world, the subject of an upcoming book.

During an academic forum themed "From Practices to Things: First Books in the Ancient World" at RUC's Suzhou Campus in Jiangsu province in late August, he argued that although writing had appeared ...

As a professor at the Department of East Asian Studies at Princeton University in the United States, and codirector of the International Center for the Study of Ancient Text Cultures at Renmin ...

In the early 1800s, a Swiss explorer tricked his way into Petra, the ancient oasis whose location ... Any false move could have blown his cover, putting his mission, and perhaps his life, in ...