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A question that many Greeks often ask is, did all the Ancient Greek soldiers who joined Alexander the Great on his Indian campaign returned with him, or if some remained in South Asia. The answer is many of them...

A recent DNA research on the bones of a boy who lived along the shores of Lake Baikal in Siberia shows that one-third of his genome was that of Western Eurasians, prompting scientists to conclude that Native Americans share...

The recent earthquake tragedy to strike Turkey was not the first of its kind. Even in ancient times, the territory now known as Turkey was struck by numerous earthquakes. Some of them were devastating to the ancient nations that...

Native American Indians migrated across the Bering Strait to and from Eurasia, according to past and present scientific studies. Yet new research has not only revealed traces of their DNA in the remains of Siberians living thousands of years...

The State Department said that the US supports "connecting distribution grids of Europe to Cyprus, Israel via EuroAsia Interconnector.”

Yiannis Papadatos, President of the Estia organization in Nea Smyrni, offered an honorary plaque to Japanese Ambassador to Greece, Masuo Nishibayashi, for the assistance of a Japanese ship to Greeks during the Asia Minor catastrophe in 1922. The Asia Minor catastrophe, as...

Greek winery Tsantali has expanded into the Asian market in a deal with Japanese food and beverage giant Suntory. The first orders of Tsantalis’ wine have already been delivered to Japan. According to Periclis Drakos, Tsantali's export director, “Suntory’s interest shows...

A commemorative event entitled Smyrna - Asia Minor, 90 Years of Memory, 1922-2012 was organized by the Greek Community of Uruguay paying tribute to the memory of the victims of the Asia Minor Catastrophe. The idea behind the event was...

The Chosun Ilbo newspaper, which celebrates its 92nd birthday this year, and affiliate TV Chosun, which was launched late last year, will co-host the Third Asian Leadership Conference under the theme: "Capitalism 4.0: Searching for Post Crisis Solutions." The...

Demetrios Christodoulou, a mathematician and physicist at ETH Zurich, won the award of “Asia’s Nobel Prize” that honours Christodoulou’s highly innovative works on nonlinear partial differential equations and their applications to general relativity and topology. The presentation ceremony was held...

Across the Mediterranean from Greece on the continent of Africa is the region of Nubia, an area that covers parts of what is now Upper Egypt and Sudan. This is where, in the days of antiquity, Greek warriors marched...

Kostas Sarantidis, the Greek fighter who escaped from the Nazi labor camps to become a national hero in Vietnam, passed away on June 25

According to a new report, only seven countries meet the international air quality standard, while dangerous levels of air pollution are on the rise in certain areas due to both an uptick in economic activity and the toxic impact...

The mysterious origins of hundreds of mummified bodies, known as the Tarim Basin Mummies, which were found buried in boats in an uninhabitable region of desert in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in northwest China, have been uncovered. The Tarim...

Global life expectancy fell by 1.6 years during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, a new study published on Tuesday in the medical journal The Lancet shows. The study, described as the most comprehensive look at the pandemic's...