Learn how environmental changes have humbled many of history’s most successful and dominant cultures.

Historian and Asia expert Peter Lee travels across Southeast Asia to explore the untold stories of four massive empires that changed the course of history. Peter Lee travels to Japan to explore ...

The 1938 excavation of the tomb of Zhang Qian, a pioneering envoy who helped establish the ancient Silk Road across Central Asia ... uncovering civilizations from Zhou, Qin, Han and Tang dynasties ...

In Southeast Asia, the influence of India’s Hinduism ... not only helped shape ancient civilizations but laid the foundation for the modern world we know.

The ancient Egyptians employed a host of exotic ingredients – some apparently imported from as far away as Southeast Asia – to mummify their dead, as revealed by a new analysis of containers ...