Director Maiken Baird and producer Sarah Mowaswes spent a year sifting through 8mm reels and lost interviews to bring the Palestinian scholar’s voice back to the screen.

Academic life is full of churn. The world changes; younger scholars are seized by new questions and, as they hare down...

A South Asia expert reaffirmed the need for continued study of post-colonial histories through physical and oral history in a new book.

The landmark documentary series looked like it was done for good – until one participant was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Asif Kapadia takes the helm for its most elegiac, thoughtful outing ever

Author and documentary-maker best known for her 1999 book about CIA-funded cultural espionage Who Paid the Piper?

Water scarcity and climate change is driving communities to restore traditional water structures built centuries ago, bringing them back into use in the 21st Century.

The collection documents key moments in Gandhi’s freedom movement as well as his personal relationship with close aide.

ISTANBUL (AP) — For centuries, Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar has been more than a marketplace. Behind its crowded passageways, generations of craftspeople have made, repaired and restored the objects that e...

The Ramayana is one of India's most famous stories – and now the heroic epic has been adapted into two mega-budget films that the team behind it are hoping will be a global event.

It has been likened to a monster, an oil rig – and the Parthenon. Now, for its 40th birthday, the astonishing London landmark has joined the Open House festival, to grant admirers a rare look around t...

Come for the art. Stay for the pastries in marbled rooms and gilded chambers

Reviled by Modi, revered in Pakistan — Aurangzeb ‘Alamgir left a legacy that Munis D Faruqui now re-examines with the help of rare contemporaneous accounts

Jewellery made from BC Iran worn at Odyssey photocall throws spotlight on the trade of rare archeological finds

History Workshop is seeking to appoint one Editorial Fellow in 2026, with specialism in pre-1800 CE history from any part of the globe.

Public Rituals charts the study of public rituals in the Portuguese Empire between 1498 and 1822 approximately, with a view to introducing both new and seasoned readers to the contexts, sources, probl...

The 127.01-carat Asscher-cut Portuguese Diamond naturally glows blue in ultraviolet light and was once the inspiration for Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.

The morning raid at the Musée Lalique comes less than a year after the infamous heist at the Louvre.

The engraving seems to reference an "auspicious" zodiac sign in Indian or Vedic astrology

Author Munis D Faruqui’s biography depicts Aurangzeb as a pragmatic, Islam-inflected ruler rather than a religious ideologue.

The newly discovered copy is one of only 11 of its kind in the world.

The Art Institute of Chicago's miniature rooms are cleaned at least twice a year, demanding patience, precision and a meditative state of mind.

Reports say up to 80,000 people waiting by mid-afternoon for chance to see historic artwork at British Museum People keen to see the Bayeux tapestry faced online queues of up to nine hours when tickets went on sale for the first time on Wednesday morning. The British Museum, which is hosting the wool-on-linen artwork from September, saw huge traffic to its ticketing website as a scramble for access began. Continue reading...

Thousands of forgotten news reports are reshaping our understanding of Aurangzeb and the Mughal world.

Around the time the United States was founded, Americans' diets included Parmesan ice cream and terrapin. But what you ate depended on your social status.

Chicago nonprofit Austin Coming Together has officially bought the J.J. Walser House, by Frank Lloyd Wright, in the Austin neighborhood.

Archaeologists say they have discovered a huge Viking Age textile production site in Denmark that dates back more than 1,000 years and underlines the sophistication of Viking society.

A thriving all-Black community flourished just outside Washington DC until its nearly 1,000 residents were forcibly displaced. Now, this little-known "city" is finally being honoured.