President Lee Jae Myung on Thursday visited a special exhibition on the 16th century naval commander Yi Sun-sin at the National Museum of Korea.

It’s got political and religious machinations, thwarted love and betrayal, and a ghostly appearance. Grand opera at its grandest, Verdi’s Don Carlo is the final production — a brand-new one, staged by ...

The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford has returned a bronze statue of Saint Tirumankai Alvar, dating back to the 16th century.

Military pieces have beguiled cultural figures from Henry Moore to William Boyd — but there is no typical collector ...

Marcus Junius Brutus was a Roman politician, leader, orator—and one of history’s most infamous assassins. Why did he launch a ...

"Queer experience has been part of the spectrum of human experience for as long as there have been human beings and so it deserves to be in any museum," they said.

When the British replaced Persian with English as the administrative language in 1837, they uprooted a seven-century ...

With guns and gun powder and swords and sticks, the men of Menar performed the 'gair' or a traditional dance performed by ...

On March 7, the suburbs of eastern Osaka become the stomping ground of 16th-century warlord Miyoshi Nagayoshi and his samurai once again. Daito City’s annual wa ...

Women warriors appear in myths across the world. Yet historical sources and archaeological finds show the female warrior is not just a myth.

An analysis of the victims’ skeletons, carried out by an Edinburgh University scientist, has revealed that 77 individuals, mainly women and children, were slaughtered and then buried - crammed ...