He sent photographs of the inscriptions to K. Muniratnam Reddy, director and epigraphist at the Archaeological Survey of ...

The ancient Greeks founded Naples in the first millennium BCE. What legends exist about its origin, and what does archaeology reveal?

Mike Benz and Cenk Uygur debate the question of abolishing foreign aid on a livestream Saturday hosted by ZeroHedge. Benz ...

What it communicates, above all, is the hopeless unhipness of its sender. I use it anyway, mostly out of habit but also ...

From Vedic hymns to stone observatories, how ancient India mapped the cosmos, decoded time, and laid the foundations of modern astronomical thought ...

New research claims that tomato plants in the Galápagos might actually be de-evolving and picking up ancient traits.

India’s complex ancestry—intertwined with Iranian farmers, Steppe herders, and local hunter-gatherers—has now been decoded ...

Not as well-known as the Kamakhya, the Dirgheshwari Devalaya is an important part of the Shaktism of this culturally rich ...

The St. Bathans currawong would have been black in color, different from the black and white Australian magpie bird.

Siamese cats have bewitched us for centuries. Their piercing blue eyes and melodious voices make them unforgettable, but it’s ...

A guqin master provides hands-on instruction to a student on the playing techniques of this ancient Chinese instrument. Photo ...

Footprints found in the ancient lakebeds of White Sands may prove that humans lived in North America 23,000 years ago — much earlier than previously believed. A new study using radiocarbon-dated mud ...