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

The little-known ancient Greek city of Europos has started to unveil its secrets in a new wave of excavations that started in ...

With world-beating museums and spectacular nature, Almaty – Kazakhstan’s largest metropolis – remains surprisingly ...

After unearthing a rare collection of highly prized Silk Road artefacts, a family in the Himalayas has opened a museum dedicated to one of the fabled route's final traders.

Consultancy group Resonance has published its inaugural list of the best cities in the Asia–Pacific region, ranking which ...

This medicinal plant was so coveted, it was worth its weight in gold. But this ultimately brought its downfall.

One of Syria’s six UNESCO World Heritage sites, Palmyra was once a key hub to the ancient Silk Road network linking the Roman ...

Also, by that time, the earliest domestic sheep genomes from Europe and further east in Iran and Central Asia had diverged ... spreading out from the early cities of Mesopotamia, we see sheep ...

When Hussain's uncles cracked through an old rusty latch and peered through the hand-carved wooden doors, they discovered wooden crates stamped with names of cities ... to Central Asia via Kashmir.

China-Europe freight rail services experienced significant growth last year. In 2024, trains made 19,000 trips, representing ...

two teams of geneticists — one led by Dr. Reich — shook up this debate with some remarkable data from ancient DNA of Bronze Age Europeans. They found that about 4,500 years ago, central and ...