A sacred North Korean mountain was recently recognized as a UNESCO Global Geopark, the first time a natural site in the ...

Archives documenting an early Cold War-era massacre on a South Korean island and the decadeslong truth-finding process ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi hailed the inclusion of the two ancient Indian texts as ‘a proud moment for every Indian across ...

Two geological parks in Indonesia, Kebumen in Central Java and Meratus in South Kalimantan have officially been recognized by ...

The Shrimad Bhagavad Gita is a part of the Hindu epic Mahabharata. It contains 700 verses in 18 chapters and takes the form of a dialogue between Lord Krishna and Arjuna. “Due to its philosophical ...

Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp is home to endangered species. Here's what to know before planning a visit to the wildlife refuge.

Mount Paektu, an active stratovolcano straddling the border of North Korea and China, is the highest peak on the Korean ...

NEW DELHI (ANI) — The Bhagavad Gita and Bharat Muni’s Natyashastra have been inscribed in UNESCO’s prestigious Memory of the ...

Through letters she wrote to her pen pals, Kartini expressed bold ideas on issues such as girls' access to education, ...

UNESCO says ancient Buddhist scriptures stored at Tokyo's Zojoji temple will be added to its Memory of the World list.

The scriptures were collected by Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan's Edo era, and donated ...

Two ancient Indian texts — the Shrimad Bhagavad Gita, dated to the 1st century, and Bharat Muni’s Natyashastra, a 5th-century ...