A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest ...

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple ...

The Vedic Period marked a crucial time between the Bronze and Iron Ages in India, following the fall of the Indus Valley Civilisation. In this video, we explore the people, culture, religion ...

Dr. Konstantin Borisov, a computer engineer, is shaking up biblical geography with a study ... Borisov turned to ancient texts and medieval maps — including the 13th-century Hereford Mappa ...

SOME time ago, when Dr. Hoernle was preparing an edition of two old Indian medical, tracts, preserved in the Bower manuscript of the fifth century A.D., he was surprised to find how little we knew ...

Notably, out of the 794 copper engravings of 742 plants, 634 plant names are furnished in the Konkani language, which used to be called Lingua Antiqua Bramanica (Ancient Language of the Brahmans).

As the primary antibiotic used to treat gonorrhoea - an ancient STI referenced in the Bible ... using our interactive map. Typical symptoms of gonorrhoea, formerly known as “the clap”, include ...

Now, a farmer is reviving this ancient "superfood". It's a hot and muggy summer day in Sicily's Madonie mountains, a rugged range of ridges about 65km east of Palermo. In a field of ash trees ...

The British Museum is about to embark on a world first in ‘Ancient India: Living Traditions’. The new exhibition is the first ever to consider early Indian sacred art through a global, pluralistic ...

India is home to some of the most jaw-dropping temples in the world — some carved out of a single rock, others standing tall for over a thousand years. These ancient temples are not mere places ...