Here’s a look at the life of Mullah Mohammed Omar, who is credited with creating the Taliban.Personal:Birth date: circa ...

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Ashes believed to belong to Buddha were paraded through the streets in India. The sacred relics of Lord Buddha and his two disciples, Shariputra and Mahamoglan, were honoured in a grand procession in ...

Whether due to natural disasters or thanks to the destructive tendencies of mankind, these iconic cultural touchstones no ...

The volatile, uncertain, and conflictual relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan would not let China extend the branches ...

Long ago, a substantial ancient Greek population from the island of Crete lived in the ancient city of Daedala, located in ...

Did you know that in Roman slang, Gladiators would sometimes be called “barley boys”? Since they, understandably, needed to ...

Herschel Hepler was browsing Google Images to practice his paleography mdash the study of historical writing systems mdash ...

As a part of a television broadcast, world travelers Hal and Halla Linker toured the Afghan countryside in 1973, years before the Soviets invaded and the Taliban took control of the Buddhist site ...

For, the project to digitise the palm leaf manuscripts - which contain a wealth of Indological material ranging from Indian culture, philosophy to science and literature - and taken up by the Mythic ...