In the early Bronze Age, a piece of bread was buried beneath the threshold of a newly built house in what is today central ...

For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?

The Atlantic has a fascinating deep dive into khipus — long cords that the Inca tied knots into to preserve information. Few ...

Roughly five millennia ago, a small band of nomads set out from their homeland around the Black Sea. On the wide-open grasslands of the steppe, they honed their skills as horsemen and herders and ...

AN ANCIENT sword engraved with swastikas and forged long before Jesus walked the Earth has been discovered in a Celtic Iron Age necropolis. Uncovered intact in France after 2,300 years ...

The Supreme Court on April 15 upheld the continued use of Urdu on a municipal signboard ... the idea that language points to social meaning, presence and legitimacy. When a language appears ...

New Delhi: Language is not religion and to consider Urdu as a language of Muslims is a "pitiable digression" from reality and unity in diversity, the Supreme Court has said while rejecting a ...

An altar from the Teotihuacan culture, at the pre-Hispanic heart of what became Mexico, was discovered in Tikal National Park in Guatemala, the center of Mayan culture, demonstrating the ...

TAKARKORI, LIBYA—According to a statement released by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, for the first time, scientists have deciphered the genomes of two individuals who ...

Saudi Arabia Temporarily Bans Visas For 14 Nations Including India. Here’s Why From 800 To 300K Followers; CSK Fan's Viral Reaction To Dhoni’s Dismissal Lands Her Brand Deal With Swiggy ...

Marked by a novel approach and presentation, Anisur Rahman’s ‘Essential Ghalib’ features 200 of the great poet’s verses in the Urdu original ... about the ancient regime and the values ...

Mahmood Farooqui performed Dastan-e-Karn az Mahabharata in Kolkata, reviving the ancient Urdu storytelling tradition of Dastangoi. The two-hour performance, attended by over 200 people ...