Indonesia, a Muslim-majority state, has more famed Buddhist and Hindu temples than any other such state in the world. Besides ...

Kublai Khan’s invasion of Java did not fail because the Mongols were weak — it failed because they walked into a political trap they did not fully understand. This video follows how a mission meant to ...

Raden Wijaya (known also as Nararya Sangramawijaya) was the founder of the Majapahit Empire. Apart from being remembered as the man who established the Majapahit Empire, Raden Wijaya is also known for ...

This piece is part of a series of articles covering the medieval and early modern great powers of each of Asia’s regions: East Asia, Central and North Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and West Asia ...

Within the vast nation of Indonesia, which is composed of numerous islands and ethnic groups, art flourished most significantly on the island of Java, where the current capital, Jakarta, is located.

The sun still sparkles on the sapphire sea at Mamallapuram. The shoppers and sightseers still dawdle along the harbour front, gawping at the astonishing sculptures carved on the rocks behind: the gods ...

Three decades after the end of the Cold War, the United States finds itself in a volatile rivalry with the other two great nuclear powers—Xi Jinping’s China and Vladimir Putin’s Russia—in a world far ...

History remembers the Mongols as a pastoral nomadic people from Central Asia who made a significant impression on the world’s history. In essence, the Mongol territorial occupation was of a scope and ...

February 24, 2024 will mark the second year of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. On that day, Russian military forces launched a full-scale invasion, which has since left thousands of Ukrainians dead ...