The Silk Road's history took a sudden turn after archaeologists discovered a series of hidden cities beneath Uzbekistan's ...

The city of Lhasa, once the heart of Tibetan civilisation and the spiritual seat of the Dalai Lama, has been systematically ...

The region also features monasteries, ancient ruins and plenty more mountains, lakes and forests. Nagqu is the largest region within Tibet, situated north of Lhasa. Nagqu, like Ngari, is pretty ...

Iyer, author of the bestselling Falling off the Map (1993) and Video Night in Kathmandu ... In Vipassana, the ancient Buddhist meditation technique, writing or speaking isn’t allowed, except ...

If there were a giant map of the world's great mythologies ... tales woven to express the heart's deepest desire. For example, the ancient Babylonian myth of Pyramus and Thisbe, two young lovers ...

The finest ever map of the cosmic microwave background - the faint evidence of the universe's early form - has yielded ...

“When the Chinese ‘advance party’ arrived at Lhasa, the Duk Lochakpa sent his representative to offer him a scarf. Norbhu reproved him for this and pointed out that, as the foreign relations of Bhutan ...

Sunny with a high of 70 °F (21.1 °C). Winds variable at 7 mph (11.3 kph). Night - Clear. Winds variable at 2 to 10 mph (3.2 to 16.1 kph). The overnight low will be 33 °F (0.6 °C). Mostly sunny ...

A geology professor believed that aerial photos from the 1950s show evidence of an ancient city under Nakhon Ratchasima in ...