Ancient Knowledge in a Modern World

25/08/2023 06:00

Ancient roots of Christianity in India

It is now almost a truism that the centres of gravity of Christianity have moved outside Europe: but many people, based on population figures, list Latin American countries first as these centres of gravity.

01/08/2023 06:00

How Kazakhstan evaluates its own past

After 1991, as a "newly independent state", Kazakhstan also had to face the question of how to evaluate its own past, how much to keep of its Soviet legacy, and what underlined from the times before that. Instead of a radical break, the Kazakh leadership is gradually turning more and more towards the national past without trying to erase the memories of the Russian and Soviet periods.

21/06/2023 07:55

The dragon, the tiger and the phoenix

The most common perception of feng shui among Europeans is that it is nothing more than the Chinese art of space arrangement. This is true, but behind the method lies the entire Chinese philosophy and world view, the harmonisation of the opposing forces of yin and yang and the knowledge of the eight Chinese trigrams.

16/05/2023 06:00

Make culture, not war

We need to move away from the usual monopoly to a cultural form of economy. Only the latter can be sustainable because it is based on culture in its original sense. For Cicero, “cultura animi” meant the activity of growing or elevating the Life Principle.

27/04/2023 06:00

Kazakh doctors praise health benefits of national drinks

Kazakh national dairy drinks saumal (freshly milked horse milk), kymyz (horse milk), and shubat (camel’s milk) support immunity and have healing properties, said Bakytzhan Bimbetov, gastroenterologist and professor at the Medical Center Hospital of President’s Affairs Administration, according to Astana Times.

06/04/2023 07:00

We have come to the ultimate questions

Attila Grandpierre on the essence of the Universe, the ancient Silk Road and the mission of the Hungarian nation.

22/03/2023 12:00

Artifacts from Uzbekistan to be exhibited in Berlin

The exhibition “Archaeological Treasures of Uzbekistan. From Alexander the Great to the Kushan Empire" will be open from 4 May 2023 to 14 January 2024.

20/03/2023 17:00

Derinkuyu: The mysterious underground city of Türkiye

A basement renovation project led to the archaeological discovery of a lifetime: the Derinkuyu Underground City, which once housed 20,000 people in Cappadocia.

20/03/2023 16:00

The abandoned Eden

For decades, historical lethargy, the indelible legacy of the post-1945 communist regimes, has been deeply ingrained in the hearts of the Hungarian community in the motherland.

10/03/2023 08:00

Ancient books meet modern technology

A literature exhibition on the great Chinese ancient encyclopedia "Yongle Dadian" officially opened at the Lanzhou Museum in northwest China's Gansu Province last week, Xinhua reports.

06/03/2023 16:00

Tradition and modernity in eastern education

Primary and secondary education in Asia has undergone a major transformation in the recent years. The pandemic has reinforced ’existing’ trends, in particular digitalisation, and recent innovations in education are expected to continue in the longer term.

25/02/2023 14:10

Ancient milk residue found on Tibetan Plateau

Chinese researchers have discovered more than 3,000 years old milk residue at an archaeological site in Namling County of Xigaze City, Tibet Autonomous Region, Xinhua reports.

20/02/2023 15:00

7000 historical documents returned to Kazakhstan

Thousands of valuable documents containing information about the history of Kazakhstan were returned to the country last year.

18/02/2023 05:00

From Chinese philosophy to ecological change

The importance of Mohism and Confucianism becomes more pronounced by the changes in ecology. As a prerequisite, good governance requires us to revisit our key concepts. According to Mozi, love for the self and love for humanity are both equally important for good governance.

16/02/2023 16:00

Kazakhstan’s mysterious miracle Turgai geoglyphs

The Turgai geoglyphs, a number of massive earth constructions arranged in geometric shapes the size of several football fields located in the Turgai Trough in northern Kazakhstan became one of the most sensational discoveries in the country’s history, The Astana Times writes.

15/02/2023 05:30

Ancient knowledge in the modern world

We are living in a special age, and we are facing an almost unimaginably profound change of eras. The one-sided material development of the modern world has proven unsustainable.