Insects have long held an esteemed status in Asian cultures. Here’s how one particularly boisterous insect species is rumored to have altered the course of Asian history.

On the sunny campus of UC Berkeley, one day in 1968, Don Symons had a conversation with Richard Dawkins. Dawkins was 8 years from publishing the book that would make him a celebrity: The Selfish Gene.

Görgüz was a powerful and influential ruler, whose first wife was the granddaughter of Kublai Khan and the second daughter of Timur (Chinese emperor, 1294–1307). Church of the East During the ...

Gateway to the canals and lagoons of the Kerala backwaters and to the Arabian Sea, Kochi was for centuries a major hub for ...

The Unification of the Mongol State – The Conquests and Massacres of the Mongols – An Evaluation of the Life and Actions of the Illiterate Genghis Khan ...

Death of Mongol Emperor Kublai Khan. 1478: George, Duke of Clarence, is convicted of treason against his older brother Edward IV and is privately executed in the Tower of London (allegedly by being ...