I once drove a friend from Bengaluru (then called Bangalore) and his mother up to San Francisco to sightsee. As a conservative elderly Hindu, she
Many Westerners have assumed that reality is centered on individual objects, distinct domains, linear relationships, proportion, vision, and mimesis (accurate imitation of things while creating
Rome started as an undistinguished looking city, but events began to happen on a larger scale in the third century BCE, when Qin Shihuang built
The development of ancient Rome forms an interesting contrast with China. The last two articles explored what was happening in the Roman Empire’s eastern counterpart
Although Qin Shihuang’s tomb is probably the largest that anyone in the world has ever constructed, he did a lot of other building while unifying
This applicant for a job in the terra-cotta army was turned down. He now works as a writer. The terra-cotta warriors get lots of
Egyptians transferred their energies from pyramid building to temple construction during the New Kingdom (1550–1070/69 BCE). They erected temples that rivaled Giza’s magnificence, and they
The historic northern Thai town of Chiang Saen is full of ancient Buddhist monuments, but Wat Phra That Chedi Luang is its main shrine. People from all walks of life still pay their respects
Most historians think Thais originated in southern China. Tais (Tai is the spelling of the diaspora of ethnic groups who speak the same family