Located at the crossroads of several trade routes from the 2nd millennium B.C., Aleppo was ruled successively by the Hittites, Assyrians, Arabs, Mongols, Mamelukes and Ottomans. The 13th-century ...

UNESCO established the Memory of the World Programme in 1992. The original impetus came from a growing awareness of the difficulties in preserving and accessing documentary heritage in various parts ...

The development of languages is a fluid process, and the emergence of linguistic identities in Central Asia from the second millennium BC does not disguise the fact that many of these languages were ...

An International Symposium on ‘Scientific and Cultural Exchanges along the Silk Roads’ will be held on November 18, at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris and online. This event is part of ‘Philosophy along ...

Dr. Munir Moosa introduced the concept of an inclusive, open educational resources policy for people with disabilities in August 2024. He invites the global scholar to join the alliance and contribute ...

The Study Group on Altruism, Communication, and Peace is an initiative linked to UNESCO that aims to promote global dialogue and cooperation for the construction of a more compassionate, collaborative ...

Macao and Manila were two very important trade centers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, trading silk, silver and porcelain from China to the west. Much of this was due to their geographical ...

Alexander, known as ‘the Great’ or ‘the Macedonian’, advanced his armies into Central Asia in the fourth century BC. Although originally at war with the Achaemenid monarch, Darius III Codomannus, his ...

SOAS, the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London) is dedicated to the study of the languages, cultures and societies of Africa, Asia and the Middle East, and is the only Higher ...

The Lord Buddha was born in 623 BC in the sacred area of Lumbini located in the Terai plains of southern Nepal, testified by the inscription on the pillar erected by the Mauryan Emperor Asoka in 249 ...

The cultural landscape and archaeological remains of the Bamiyan Valley represent the artistic and religious developments which from the 1st to the 13th centuries characterized ancient Bakhtria, ...

Cities grew up along the Silk Roads as essential hubs of trade and exchange, here merchants and travellers came to stop and rest their animals and begin the process of trading their goods. From Xi’an ...