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.

The border town of Raxaul inaugurated its railway station on 1 March 1899. Once Raxaul was connected, it became easier for ...

Maps are ubiquitous—on phones, in-flight and car displays, and in textbooks the world over. While some maps delineate and ...

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

For a century and a half ... and Benaras was allocated Rs 2.8 lakh. Figure: Map of the United Provinces from The Imperial Gazetteer of India 1907-1909. Credit: in public Domain via Wikimedia ...

Were you told that gold mining in southern Africa started after 1852 ? Or that the export of iron, steel, copper and gold began in the late 19th cent ...

The McKinley Tariff of 1890 raised import duties to nearly 50% on average, up from around 38% previously. As the House Ways and Means Committee chairman, McKinley argued that high tariffs were ...

Fast-forward two millennia and the paintwork has long since faded, giving rise to a range of colourless copycats that would ...

Why didn’t the United States annex Canada during earlier historical periods? In short, because it didn’t want to. President ...

An exhibition titled Il Viaggio (En Route) commissioned by the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana features works by global artists as well as Indian craftspersons.

Imagine that you are a merchant in 17th-century Mexico. With bated breath, you stand at the harbor of Acapulco, eagerly ...

"Talking directly to our adversaries from a position of strength" is a way Trump can ensure peace, according to a former official.