Across the globe, iconic monuments and sacred sites—from Bamiyan to Palmyra—bear the scars of conflict, showing how war can erase culture, memory, and history in an instant. Here is a look at seven of ...

History is full of wartime episodes where the gloves came off in relation to world-renowned architecture and bombs fell ...

The greatest loss in any conflict is human life. Yet war also erodes something equally irreplaceable—the cultural memory of ...

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi sharply condemned Israel's attacks on the country’s historical monuments and criticized the “unacceptable” silence from the United Nations cultural agency, ...

The relationship between Afghanistan and the Indian subcontinent was built over five centuries by people who were ...

Today we’ll find out about the departure of a giant sculpture of a pigeon that has been perched on the High Line for almost 18 months. We’ll also get details on a first step that could lead to the ...

In his first statement since becoming supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei said on Thursday that Iran must keep the Strait of ...

However, the impermanent, brightly hued gods and goddesses of unfired clay mass-produced in the bylanes of Kumartuli in ...

Tourism infrastructure including hotels, UNESCO heritage sites and civil airports are increasingly being targeted in wars. A growing global coalition led by the World Tourism Network is urging the UN ...

Silent retreats have become increasingly common in the United States in recent years. To calm down and reset their nervous ...

Ongoing efforts by the Trump administration to revise history and how that impacts democracy were the topics of discussion ...

Among the numerous statues of Buddha in Kamakura, the seated bronze statue of Amida Nyorai (Amitābha) at the temple Kōtokuin is the only one designated a national treasure. Familiarly known as the ...