Archaeologists often spend long amounts of time at a dig site, only to dig up garbage such as bottle caps and soda cans, or even nothing at all. If these researchers manage to dis ...

Banerjee, an intrepid explorer and talented epigraphist, worked for the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) when the country ...

Child sacrifice was thought to be rare in their culture. This chilling discovery suggests foreign invaders played a role.

The cymbals were excavated from a building dating to the third millennium BCE, associated with the Umm an-Nar culture. Though ...

A massive stone tomb in Peru holding 24 battle-scarred skeletons is shedding light on a mysterious pre-Inca civilization, revealing clues of ancient warfare.

The sprawling tale takes viewers on a journey from temples deep in the sweltering jungles of Southeast Asia to the heights of ...

India’s ancient history is like an immense ocean—deep, layered, and full of secrets waiting to be discovered. While many are ...

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 ...

In a groundbreaking achievement, scientists have successfully revived the dire wolf, an ancient species that went extinct nearly 12,500 years ago, using cutting-edge genetic engineering techniques.

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An illustration from an Arabic translation of a story in the 'Pañcatantra,' a collection of animal fables. Photo12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images ...

Although Indian theorists knew this ethic well, they were also aware that those with power often need inducement for doing the right thing, for – as the saying goes – power tends to corrupt ...