Sindh is derived from the word Sindhu, strictly a word for river in Sanskrit but also used interchangeably for the Indus ...

Reports that archaeologists have uncovered the remains of people nearly ten feet tall in a Nevada cave have pushed a ...

The saffron flag that now flutters atop the Ram Mandir represents far more than the completion of a temple. It marks the ...

MADURAI: The Madurai Bench of Madras High Court on Friday reserved orders on a batch of petitions filed over the location ...

Archaeologists have long known that complex societies can rise, flourish and then disappear so completely that only scattered ...

by Saenz F. Iction A dystopian sci-fi tale of Unit 734 (“Schema”), an AI built to enforce “peace” in the Levant by rewriting ...

When you picture medieval warfare, you might think of epic battles and famous monarchs. But what about the everyday soldiers ...

With the establishment of Christianity as the official religion, it seemed the Roman Empire was going to simplify the ...

Fun facts about Cleopatra: Although associated in the public mind with ancient Egypt, she lived closer to our time than to the building of the pyramids of Giza. When she was ruling Egypt and ...

Archaeologists in the Czech Republic have revealed a trove of coins, gold jewelry and other artifacts that date to about 2,500 years ago, during the region's Celtic period. According to a translated ...

Physicists have worked out how to make beams of muons without using a huge particle accelerator 1. Muons are subatomic particles that form when cosmic rays collide with particles in the Earth’s upper ...

When the Johns Hopkins University Archaeological Museum officially reopens on Oct. 13, it will celebrate both 140-plus years of existence and a new chapter in its life as a teaching collection for the ...