NPR's Scott Simon speaks to historian William Dalrymple about his latest book, "The Golden Road: How Ancient India ...

Afghanistan remains a priority as it faces overlapping crises, the UN's relief chief Tom Fletcher tells AFP, deploring "brutal" aid budget cuts.

The Milindapañha recounts the Socratic-like dialogue of an Indo-Greek king, Menander, and his conversion. Could it be true?

Mr Osideinde visited three provinces in Afghanistan. A 30-year-old British man's account of an 11-day trip to Afghanistan, including a supposed romantic encounter with a Taliban terrorist ...

Deinosuchus could then have spread across the continent to inhabit coastal marshes on both sides of the ancient inland sea, and along North America’s Atlantic coast. The new study’s revised ...

In eastern Laghman province, niches carved into the rocky landscape of Gowarjan village are believed to be ancient storerooms dating back ... AKTC's head in Afghanistan. He noted an "enthusiasm" from ...

An often overlooked ancient pyramid in Mexico was filled with pools of a rare element in its underground chambers, leading to new theories that the structure may have had a shocking hidden purpose.

Ancient Greek measurement unit ... Between 1868 and 1883 Potagos Panagiotis, a Greek explorer, visited Afghanistan. He reported that there was still the Stadion unit used since it was introduced by ...

Visit ancient Mars -- a surprisingly temperate planet where snow or rain falls from the sky, and rivers rush down valleys to feed hundreds of lakes. A new study from geologists at the University ...

A magnitude 5.8 earthquake struck the Afghanistan-Tajikistan border, with tremors felt in Jammu, Srinagar, Punjab, Delhi-NCR, and parts of Pakistan. Earthquake today: Earthquake tremors were felt ...

They fear that Afghanistan’s musical heritage -- including ancient instruments like the rebab-- is at risk. “If you take any of these [instruments] away, the whole ensemble is lost,” says ...