Afghanistan’s Bamiyan Buddhas were symbols of the country’s rich cultural history. When extremists destroyed them, the world ...

Twenty years after the destruction of the ancient Bamiyan Buddhas, all that remains are empty niches—and memories. The larger of the two Bamiyan Buddhas still sat in the central Afghan valley when ...

I climbed the ruins of 12th-century citadels sacked by Genghis Khan, sat in sunlight beneath a canopy of apricot and apple trees in the Panjshir Valley drinking cardamom tea, and explored the empty ...

Souvlaki, ancient history, some of the world’s best beaches – there are endless reasons to holiday in Greece. But with popularity comes crowds, and in recent years the streets of Rhodes, Mykonos and ...

Two massive sculptures of the Buddhist sage clambering over a hot pot restaurant in the Jinan city shopping district were taken down by local authorities who deemed them a public offense. One of the ...

ROME — Italy celebrated the return Friday of 266 antiquities from the United States, including Etruscan vases and ancient Roman coins and mosaics worth tens of millions of dollars that were looted and ...