There are mentions of the city in ancient Greek texts which indicate that a group of prisoners founded the city of Tenea after suffering a defeat in the Trojan War by the Greek hero Odysseus. Now more ...

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 ...

The researchers found that levels of lead contamination remained fairly low and localised in ancient Greece, considered the cradle of European civilisation, throughout the Bronze Age, the ...

A check by the Post on Sunday found some major travel agencies were promoting group tours using the first Tibet Airlines flight on the route on February 19. Some trips were already fully booked.

AN ANCIENT underground labyrinth city with its own advanced water system has been discovered after researchers stumbled across it in a garden. The sprawling network of twisting passages was found ...

A pair of ancient nematodes or microscopic roundworms that lived in the Pleistocene era, when woolly mammoths still roamed the Earth, have been revived by scientists. The surprising discovery ...

searched the Yale library’s large collection of early Chinese medical texts. In an ancient book titled Treatise on Cold Damage, printed on slightly wrinkled bamboo paper, she found an 1,800-year ...

In the early 1800s, a Swiss explorer tricked his way into Petra, the ancient oasis whose location ... In 1812, Swiss scholar Johann Ludwig Burckhardt found himself standing at the entrance to ...

Peter's Basilica. Additionally, the Diocese of Shantou is rallying Catholic communities to contribute to relief efforts in Tibet, emphasizing the spiritual works of mercy during the Holy Year of Hope.

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Last week, homeowner Samy Arbid was informed by a utility company that power couldn't be restored to his home because a very large bear had been found in the crawl space where they needed to work.

We found a significant linear increase in microbial diversity with increasing elevation ... This research was supported by the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research (STEP) program ...