Abdulhakim Idris explores how colonial policies, state repression, and the Ürümqi massacre paved the way for the Uyghur ...

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Rare Book of the Dead papyrus positioned within New Kingdom burial practice narrative The discovery has been placed under the oversight of Egypt’s antiquities authorities, with plans for selected ...

WASHINGTON, July 2 (Reuters) - Police in New York City said on Thursday a man died from severe burns near the United Nations headquarters, and activists and a media outlet of exiled Tibetans ...

For centuries, the Bardo Thodol, known in the West as the Tibetan Book of the Dead, has served as one of the most influential texts in Tibetan Buddhism. Traditionally recited to the dying and the ...

Ancient Egyptians built burials for the next world with the same seriousness they brought to this one: canopic jars for preserved organs, amulets for protection, ushabti figures for labor in the ...

Robert Thurman, father to actress Uma Thurman and the co-founder of the cultural institution Tibet House in New York City, has died at the age of 84. Thurman’s death was announced via social media by ...

The keepers of Vulture’s monthly survey of must-read new releases are tracking the highlights of this year in books, both fiction and nonfiction. Check back each month for the latest additions. Titles ...

For the deceased of Roman-era Egypt, Greek literature may have offered a cheat code to a more comfortable afterlife. By Franz Lidz Archaeologists working in Egypt have discovered a remarkable ...

In November 2017, French President Emmanuel Macron traveled to the United Arab Emirates to inaugurate a new museum—and a new relationship between East and West. The Louvre Abu Dhabi was to become the ...