Tag: History

Alexandria bids farewell to historic tram in latest urb...

Along Egypt’s Mediterranean coast, the oldest tram in Africa and the Middle East...

Roy Medvedev, Soviet dissident historian who exposed St...

He was the first historian to calculate the number of Stalin’s victims: ‘Not one...

Morag MacDougall, chief of a Highland clan who protecte...

As a speech therapist she worked with children and stroke patients, and she was ...

Malaysia scores at Unesco heritage awards with George T...

The Esplanade Seawall and Promenade project in George Town has been recognised i...

Jalan Sang Guna: Once forgotten, an alley in KL’s China...

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 20 — Just a short walk from three of Chinatown’s best-known pl...

Archaeologist opens tomb of King Tut

16 February 1923.

A Neo-Assyrian sculpture

In September 2025, archaeologists in Mosul reported uncovering a colossal Neo-As...

Out of the ruins: will Aleppo ever be rebuilt?

Years of civil war have turned whole areas of the city into rows of empty husks....

India scraps colonial-era railway uniforms to erase Bri...

Banning of the Bandhgala is latest in a raft of measures by Narendra Modi to def...