Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple have given experts more clues about the ancient metropolis of Eridu.

From the vast meticulously maintained archives of the City Palace, Udaipur, are presented glimpses from the life and times of Shriji Arvind Singh Mewar, 76th Custodian of the House of Mewar.

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

Once on the civil war's front line, the medieval souk, the major Syrian city's former bustling heart, is now largely ...

In a bid to boost transparency and empower mobile subscribers, telecom service providers (TSPs) have published mobile network coverage maps on their websites, as per the mandate given by the Telecom ...

Cyprus has also been valued for its natural resources, particularly its rich copper deposits, which were highly prized in the ancient world and ... upheavals of the 20th century. Map showing the ...

36 specimens, present at the Smithsonian Institution and the Royal Ontario Museum, from the Cambrian Period of the Burgess Shale of Canada, were examined. (Photo: Getty) Evolution has been one of the ...

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 ...

Scientists achieved “a milestone” by charting the activity and structure of 200,000 cells in a mouse brain and their 523 million connections. A neuron extends an axon to make contact with ...

The effort to resurrect dire wolves started at Colossal with DNA recovery from two ancient remains, which included a tooth from 13,000 years ago and a skull dating back 72,000 years. Research teams ...

Placing this discovery within the wider context of ancient Mesoamerica and its competing empires, Houston goes on to explain that the “powers of central Mexico reached into the Maya world ...

Nonprofits eager to restore ancient fishponds that once sustained Hawaiʻi’s Indigenous population face an immediate problem — first they have to know where they all are. The state hasn’t ...