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Photo courtesy of Tsem Rinpoche A few weeks ago I embarked on a 16 hour journey by air from Colombo to Toronto. I carried one ...

The waters of Lake Issyk-Kul have hidden an important Silk Road city ever since an earthquake shifted the region’s landscape.

Archaeologists recently explored a long-lost Silk Road city at the bottom of a lake, uncovering a trove of artifacts and a ...

A young woman buried in China’s Tarim Basin some 2,000 years ago went to the afterlife accompanied by the height of fashion. The woman, who was wrapped in a felt blanket and buried in a coffin ...

Your ultimate L.A. Bookshelf is here — a guide to the 110 essential L.A. books, plus essays, supporting quotes and a ranked list of the best of the best. In advance of this year’s Los Angeles Times ...

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Archaeologists in Budapest have unearthed a well-preserved Roman sarcophagus, revealing insights into the life of a young ...

Surveyed for the first time since its discovery two decades ago, the settlement "breaks from all the things that we thought ...

This papyrus is one of hundreds discovered on Egypt’s Elephantine Island that provide insight into a community of people originally from Judah, once the southern part of the biblical Kingdom of Israel ...

The museums will be accessible to each other through an overground walkway. Considered one of the key galleries of Zayed ...