In southern Turkey ... connect ancient road networks with modern hiking paths, tracing rivers, twisting up gorges and traversing the ruins of Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine cities. Map: Guilbert ...

The showdown between the ancient Greek city states and the Achaemenid Empire of Persia was one of the pivotal moments of ...

Once on the civil war's front line, the medieval souk, the major Syrian city's former bustling heart, is now largely ...

A group of scammers in Turkey's Tunceli region allegedly defrauded citizens out of $1.32 million in an elaborate scam involving fake ancient treasure maps. The suspects apparently traveled to villages ...

Preserved at the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute and codified around the 2nd century BC, the Natyashastra of Bharat ...

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Leyla Uysal, the founder of Bajer, uses the motifs from ancient Kurdish carpet-weaving techniques to shine a light on her people.

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From a melon that costs thousands to truffles sniffed out by trained pigs, these are the most expensive foods in the world.

In the heart of Eurasia lies a vast region once known more for its historic caravans and ancient scholarship than for its ...

The ancient Ottoman and Persian borders are becoming lines of friction, just as they were under the Roman Empire facing the Sassanids. This expansion is primarily expressed through economics. Turkey ...