Shaped by both politics and geography, Greenland and Afghanistan have become two major frontiers in the global scramble for ...

Lapis lazuli, often called the "blue gold," is a gemstone mined primarily in the rugged mountains of Badakhshan, northeastern Afghanistan. For over 6,000 years, its unique beauty and symbolism ...

The vast majority of female scribes remain anonymous. Many likely worked in convents or lay workshops, their contributions ...

OUR 18-day cruise from Buenos Aires down the South Atlantic Ocean, going through the Straits of Magellan, specifically Cape ...

In 17th-century Europe, when Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio and Peter Paul Rubens painted their famous masterpieces, the blue pigment ultramarine, extracted from the semi-precious stone lapis ...

Although Afghanistan has historically been well known for its lapis lazuli deposits, significant amounts of fine emerald, tourmaline, kunzite, and some rubies are now emerging from that embattled ...

In November 1911, the French banker Albert Kahn revealed his plans for an undertaking that was global in scale and utopian in ...

It was prepared from the mineral lapis lazuli, which at the time was mined exclusively in remote Afghanistan. “We wondered how on earth a woman at this early date, in a kind of backwater ...

The investigation's results presented overwhelming evidence of the Afghan Taliban's (TTA) increasing support to Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) through logistical assistance and operational ...

Family members of Afghan-American U.S. military personnel, children cleared to reunite with their parents, relatives of Afghans already admitted and tens of thousands of Afghans who worked for the ...