Turret-ly in love with castles? Bavaria might be your ideal holiday destination - because as these pictures show, it's ...

Victor Brombert, the Henry Putnam University Professor of Romance and Comparative Literatures, and an authority on French ...

A Kalyan court’s ruling has rekindled a long-standing legal battle between the Maharashtra government and Muslim petitioners over the ownership of land that Muslims assert has housed a mosque since th ...

The buildings of Old Tbilisi, the Georgian capital's historic quarter, for centuries reflected the city's rule by Mongols, ...

F rom the emerald waters of Ha Long Bay to the lush rice terraces of Sapa, and from the bustling cities of Hanoi and Saigon to the lantern-lit town of Hoi An and the imperial city of Hue, Vietnam has ...

A 19th century watercolour painting of Gibraltar’s Tower of Homage was sold at auction this week for £15,570. The pencil and watercolour image by the Scottish painter David Roberts had been expected ...

The legendary Joachim-Ma Stradivarius violin, crafted by Antonio Stradivari in 1714 during his “golden period,” is set to become the most expensive musical instrument ever sold, with a $12-18 million ...

The vast numbers of new dinosaurs that have been documented since the 1960s are equally exciting. New dinosaurs have of ...

In the past, Priyanka Chopra starred in two of her co-productions – Shonali Bose's 2019 film The Sky Is Pink and Ramin ...

Roberts, considered one of the great 19th century touring artists, travelled to Morocco, Cadiz and Jerez before finally settling in Seville, where he spent five months. The painting, titled ‘British ...

Excavated in the 19th century, Nineveh Governorate's Shamash Gate is named after the Sun god Shamash and opens to the road to Erbil [Getty] Aleppo, one of the world’s oldest man-made cities, ...

The citadel’s vaulted and domes structures are characteristic of a medieval fortified city, and were built using chineh (mud layers) and khesht (sun-dried mud brick). By the 19th century, most of ...