Archaeologists uncover an 18th-century Russian shipwreck on Iran’s Caspian coast, revealing trade and agricultural links in ...

Archaeologists from the International Association for Mediterranean and Oriental Studies (Italy) and the Underwater Archaeology Faculty in Tehran conducted the excavation work.

The wreck of a German steamship sunk at the end of World War II found by divers, with the crates on board the submerged vessel holding the precious furnishings of the lost 18th century Amber Room, ...

A detailed investigation of a wooden shipwreck discovered off the Mazandaran coast in southern Iran shed light on maritime ...

Photographer Michael Robinson Chávez visits a city in Ukraine that was partly famous as a site for Russian travelers and ...

On March 30, 1867, U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and Russian envoy Baron Edouard de Stoeckl signed the Treaty of Cession. With a stroke of a pen, Tsar Alexander II had ceded Alaska, his ...

Touted as the next heir to the cultural capitals of Russia alongside Moscow and St Petersburg is Perm, where a cultural revival highlighting edgy contemporary art is taking place. The new avant garde ...

Interestingly, they found multiple clues within the shipwreck itself that point towards its origins in Russian shipyards operating in the Caspian Sea during the 18th century. To identify the ...

Russia has celebrated New Year and Christmas ... and painted fir-tree cones added since the 18th century. All decorations had deep Christian symbolism: six-pointed stars placed atop trees ...

But since Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine the government ... After his death, Georgia disintegrates politically and collapses by the 15th Century. 16th-18th Centuries - Safavid Iran (and ...