Experts work to restore Syria's war-damaged heritage sites, aiming to revive tourism and boost the country's economy.

The Nakasendo road still exists in its entirety - as do dozens of the post towns it weaves between - and can form an epic ...

The names of foreign places can be filled with an inexplicable magic, as all travellers know, even in an age when this magic ...

this would be a perfect place for the proposed museum. Paperwork for the allocation of this space is under way,” Mr. Rajakumar told The Hindu. Highlighting the significance of the project ...

At least 30 people have died and 60 have been injured in a stampede at a Hindu festival in northern India. Images from the scene in the city of Prayagraj, in Uttar Pradesh state, show bodies being ...

But a trip to the Silk Roads exhibition at London’s British Museum showed me how little I knew. There were camels (pictured above), but far from being one road, there was a network of routes ...

Now, as grade-one relics – China’s highest historical designation – they sit among 228 extraordinary artefacts at the city’s newest cultural landmark, the Poly MGM Museum. Its inaugural ...

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. Muzzamil Hussain was in ...

India’s Hindu festival of Maha Kumbh Mela, which has drawn millions of devotees to a confluence of sacred rivers in the northern Uttar Pradesh state, is mired in political controversy after ...

It kind of gives the gesture more gravitas.” In 2011, Ulbricht, an Eagle Scout from Austin, Texas, founded Silk Road, an online black market that existed until his arrest, in 2013, for crimes ...

Trump had planned to commute the life sentence of the founder of the Silk Road online drug bazaar at the end of his first term, according to former U.S. officials and a political consultant who ...

Ross Ulbricht, founder of the anonymous online marketplace Silk Road, thanked President Donald Trump for giving him a full and unconditional pardon. In a video posted online, a visibly emotional ...