In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re dead ...

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.

A 113-million-year-old hell ant that once lived in northeastern Brazil is now the oldest ant specimen known to science, finds ...

It appears that the culprit at Tall el-Hammam was a small asteroid similar to the one that knocked down 80 million trees in Tunguska, Russia in 1908. It would have been a much smaller version of the ...

Aurangzeb’s Deccan campaign to subjugate Golconda and Bijapur as well as his Maratha adversaries was funded to a great extent ...

Emily and Sheema will bring a unique insight into Hindu mythology (Image: Richard McMellon) Work and extensive travel in India has kindled a great love of Hindu mythology for Emily. She has devised ...

Typhon, or Typhoeus as he was also called, was a monstrous, serpentine creature with a hundred heads that could shoot fire ...

Chances are, if you can think of a stereotypical attribute of a rock and roll star, it was Robert Plant who first established that trope. From the outset of Led Zeppelin’s existence, the flamboyant ...

Pope Francis, head of the Catholic Church, has passed away after struggling with poor health. Over the next few days, one ...

The Vatican has announced that the Pope is dead. A series of arcane rites now occur and then the complex process of naming a ...

The ancient Greek city of Thebes played a central role in Greek history, appearing in many of the legends of Greek mythology.

Ukrainian artist Sana Shahmuradova Tanksa transforms personal and national trauma into haunting, dreamlike canvases – ...