The 16-metre dugout canoe with two sails and an outrigger was made on the Island of Luf around 1890, intended as the funerary vessel for a chief. Taken by German colonialists soon after it was built, ...

One is still there now.

Dr. Gnaka Lagoke Burkina Faso Captain Ibrahim Traore, Symbol of the Global Pan-African Resistance: Keys to Understand the Phenomenon Pan-Africanism, defined as the spirit of unity and solidarity of ...

Generations of Germans believe Frederick the Great brought the beloved potato to Germany. But the legend, which includes ...

A Russia-appointed official in Ukraine’s occupied Luhansk region says that Moscow’s forces have overrun all of it.

When Palace Hotel Tokyo first opened in 2012, Japan was a very different place. Although back then Tokyo and Japanese cities such as its ancient capital, Kyoto, were already popular destinations ...

A street that crosses through the Imperial Palace in Tokyo will be open to the public for cherry blossom viewing for the first time in four years from March 25 to April 2, the Imperial Household ...

TOKYO -- Emperor Naruhito met with German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier at the Imperial Palace here on June 18, during the president's visit to Ja ...

In the heart of modern Beijing is the world’s largest palace complex, big enough to hold 50 Buckingham Palaces and covering more than 7.75 million square feet. Known as the Forbidden City, it ...

Forbidden City (Imperial Palace) is ranked #3 out of 16 things to do in Beijing. See pictures and our review of Forbidden City (Imperial Palace).

Taiwan's National Palace Museum, home to one of the world's biggest collections of imperial Chinese treasures, must expand its horizons internationally to let the "world see Taiwan", President Lai ...