Richard Bevan reveals the real stories behind the world’s lost cities - how they fell, how they were found, and why their ...

Unduvap Poya, which falls today, has great historical significance for Sri Lanka, as several important events occurred on ...

NEW DELHI, (ANI) – Founded in India, Buddhism also found a fertile ground in Southeast Asia, where it took root and flourished for centuries, shaping the region’s socioeconomic, political, cultural, ...

Monks participate in the final Dharma debating exam for the Geshe Lharampa degree at Jokhang Temple, Lhasa in April, 2021. [Photo by Daqiong/For chinadaily.com.cn] Since Buddhism was introduced from ...

From the Minoan royal road to the Ridgeway, ancient roads still exist today showing how past civilizations built networks ...

America is facing an acute threat of “theocracy” — or so you would think from reading several recent articles. “Welcome to the theocracy,” writes Ruth Marcus in The Washington Post. “If you don’t ...

Bihar has long been a meeting point of spiritual and intellectual movements that changed the course of Asian history. Read on.

THE GOLDEN ROAD: How Ancient India Transformed the World. By William Dalrymple. Bloomsbury. 432 pages. $32.99. Toward the end of “The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World,” historian ...

Han Buddhism and Indian Buddhism practitioners and scholars differ in opinions on the archaeological findings at the Mo'er Temple site in Kashgar, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. Considering ...

A poll released by the Pew Research Center found that most Catholics believe religion has a positive influence on life in the United States, and an increasing number of Catholics believe religious ...

The distant past of what is now Bangladesh is often a tricky subject to study. Enigmatic cultures and a turbulent past made it difficult to paint an accurate picture of its history. But some excavated ...

One of the most remarkable transformations in history unfolded during the life of Ashoka the Great, a ruler who transitioned from a brutal conqueror of a vast empire to a benevolent emperor guided by ...