The Uzbeks have an aptitude for rail travel. In a very different way from the chaotic manner in which the Indians took to the British-built railways, the Central Asians adopted the train system built ...

Jefferson Dr. S.W. Washington, D.C. The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art is committed to preserving, exhibiting, researching and interpreting art in ways that deepen the public and scholarly ...

Over five days in July 2025, the Thai–Cambodian border erupted into its deadliest confrontation in more than a decade. At least 38 people were killed and 300,000 were displaced as artillery and air ...

Scientists have unearthed what they believe to be the oldest known evidence of human mummification in Southeast Asia. The findings, estimated to be around 12,000 years old, set a new record for the ...

This piece is part of a series of articles covering the medieval and early modern great powers of each of Asia’s regions: East Asia, Central and North Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and West Asia ...

By Mark Buckton - Taipei Twenty-five years ago, the notion that the centre of gravity in global pop music might shift away from Los Angeles, London or any of a number of Western capitals might have ...

Researchers used sophisticated scanning and digital reconstruction techniques to determine the original shape of the skull, which is between 940,000 and 1.1 million years old.

A crushed million-year-old skull found in China that has been digitally reconstructed reopens a debate in human evolution.

Policymakers and scholars in the West talk about Southeast Asia as a coherent region, but it has always been divided. The region’s 700 million people speak hundreds of languages and follow different ...

A recent repatriation from Australia to Cambodia shows how this process can reinforce oppressive powers, and further marginalize the historically oppressed.