The "Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room" at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Asian Art in Washington, DC, assembled by Alice S. Kandell (all photos Melissa R. Kerin/Hyperallergic) Already a ...

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In the late 1800s archaeologists pinpointed the location of Taxila, one of the greatest religious and cultural sites on the Silk Roads’ trading routes. Rebuilt again and again throughout the centuries ...

In Western India, some of the country’s richest fossil beds lie inside open coal mines. It is gruelling work for palaeontologists with long days under a haze of dust, the deafening hammering of tools, ...

The great upheaval defied analysis. Day after day, as Red China’s latest convulsion swept the nation, reason dissipated itself in the mad mobs and red banners that festooned the broad boulevards of ...

The beauty of the solitary, often snow-capped, stratovolcano, known around the world as Mount Fuji, rising above villages and tree-fringed sea and lakes has long been the object of pilgrimages and ...

Rivers overflowed, the raging waters flattening everything in their way, and boulders, trees and rocks hurtled down slopes across the Jammu region on Tuesday (August 26, 2025), killing at least 13 ...

This took the death toll in rain-related mishaps in the region to nine. The landslide occurred around 3pm near the Inderprastha Bhojnalaya at Ardhkuwari. Rescue operations were underway, and the ...

Luang Prabang is an outstanding example of the fusion of traditional architecture and Lao urban structures with those built by the European colonial authorities in the 19th and 20th centuries. Its ...