Prominent in Stalinist propaganda of the 1930s, the metaphor of the path features heavily in Martin Sixsmith’s 1,000-year history of Russia. Presiding over a sprawling Eurasian landmass unsecured by ...

An exploration of Russia's medieval origins through to its bloody expansion to become the biggest country in the world. It's a tale that set the scene for one of the world's most enigmatic figures ...

TASS/. Meteorologists registered more than a thousand records in different Russian regions this year, research director of the Hydrometeorological Center of Russia Roman Vilfand said at a press ...

OSHU, Iwate Prefecture--One of Japan’s more bizarre festivals with a 1,000-year history that involves near-naked men fighting over a hemp bag of charms was held for the last time on Feb. 17.

For nearly a thousand years, Windsor Castle has stood as a symbol of Britain’s strength and power. As the oldest and largest occupied castle in the world, Windsor holds endless history within ...

Sun 10 Dec 6.27pm • James Saunders Watson's ancestors bought the former fortress for hundreds of pounds and now it runs as a popular visitor attraction in Northamptonshire ...

Today's object: Mummy of Hornedjitef British Museum Mummy and coffins of a priest who lived over 1,000 years after Tutankhamun and Ramesses the Great. Weekly theme: Making us human Looking at the ...

The Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction were established in 2012 to recognize the best fiction and nonfiction books for adult ...

Paul U Unschuld is director of the Institute of History of Medicine at the University of Munich ... was published in 1601, 3 years after the appearance of the Bencao gang mu, a comprehensive ...