The Persian empire pioneered women's rights. Other contemporary cultures made jokes about it and considered Persians unmanly.

Wedged between the Middle East, south Asia and central Asia, Afghanistan occupies a pivotal place in world geography and world history. Its location has helped draw a diversity of cultures, religions ...

AMMAN - The international community does not know how long will last the most recent of Zionist's offensives on Gaza, nor it ...

While today, in India, Buddhism is strongly linked with social activism and anti-caste movements, the reason Buddhism thrived ...

THE Garden of Eden is a mythological place where Adam and Eve once roamed, before a run-in with a snake and an apple tree got them banished. But some believe it was based on a real location ...

Ancient historians recorded legends about the invention of the first coins, and archaeologists have found some surprising ...

The treat reached Persia around 500 BC, but Europe remained unsweetened until Arabs brought it to Spain 1,200 years later. Even after Arabs introduced sugar in Europe, it remained too expensive ...

The pair start in Turkey before flowing through Syria and Iraq and emptying in the Persian Gulf ... "By examining a map from around 500 BC, it becomes apparent that the only four rivers emerging ...

Politicians usually refer to the Islamic period (1000 to 1800) as the Mughal period (1500-1800), but that is not quite correct. Mughals had Mongolian roots, while earlier Muslim rulers of India had ...

A seated Gandhara Buddha from 300-500 AD that is the epitome of Greco-Buddhism ... of Magadha Pataliputra and began his homeward journey in 325 BC and in 324 BC; he died in Persia. However his aim was ...