As of today citizens of over 60 countries are able to enter Russia without visas using only their national passports, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Yevgeny Ivanov said.

The ruins of a submerged city on the Tigris River that emerged this year belonged to a little-known empire. A team of local and German archaeologists sprang into action to excavate the site, uncovering new details ...

Between two fields on the outskirts of a 1960s new town in Northumberland is a startling, track-stopping sculpture passed by on a regular basis by hardly anyone: it’s a giant 15ft spoon.

Tour groups are expected to take responsibility for ensuring visitors respect Japan's near-universal mask-wearing and other measures that have helped keep the toll from Covid-19 comparatively low.

Two foreign tourist groups visited the historical city of Palmyra Thursday to get acquainted with its civilization and human heritage and document the sabotage that affected the most prominent edifices in Daesh ...

Since days of old, religious monuments or places of worship have played an important part in people’s lives, so much so that they eventually gave rise to the concept of religious architecture.

Iran has a wide variety of arts and skills, placing it among the top three countries in terms of producing handicrafts. In spite of this, Iran is not among the first 30 exporting countries of handicrafts.

A researcher in ancient Iranian culture and languages announced that a new and trilingual inscription, which has remained out of view so far, had been discovered in the ancient site of Naqsh-e Rustam pointing to ...