A theft from a museum of empire may look like payback, yet the spoils will still enrich the same world that built it.

Once the city fell to the Turks, the British had to evacuate. Lieutenant-Colonel Toby Rawlinson took command of a steamer ...

The historian’s “The Burning Earth” reframes 500 years of human history as an environmental story, and asks what it means to ...

Hello Kitty turns 50 on Friday. Befitting a pop icon at midlife, the bubble-headed, bow-wearing character's fictional birthday has brought museum exhibits, a theme park spectacle and a national tour.

Empires rise and fall, maps evolve, but borders often endure beyond the ambitions that created them. The Durand Line, ...

Cambodian tycoon Chen Zhi, founder and chairman of the Prince Holding Group, is at the center of an international scandal ...

His architecture swung from austere to whimsical, with conspicuous projects like the sprawling headquarters of the British ...

Japanese colonialism is infamous for its brutalization of women, abducted and forced into sex slavery. Less known is women’s ...

The Story of a Genocide" provide a counter-narrative to the mainstream media coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, ...

A ceasefire in Gaza has created a hopefully enduring–albeit uneasy–pause in the two-year Israel-Hamas war, with the recent ...

When the US and UK governments jointly imposed sweeping sanctions on one of Asia’s largest criminal networks this week, ...

For this reason, Cyrus became (and remains) a legendary figure in Jewish history, though he was not Jewish himself. He was more likely a devotee of Zoroastrianism, which was fervently embraced by his ...