The body’s exceptional state of conservation—with skin, hair and nails still intact—is relatively uncommon in the region, ...

The seafarer peoples of the past who mastered the oceans were crucial in laying the foundations upon which civilizations were ...

Globalisation, initially conceived to foster peace and contain Communism, now faces disruption as China, a Communist nation, ...

Empires rise like wildfires—how do we measure their scars? One way to measure the march of human history would be the timeline of “The Empires.” The Akkadian Empire (circa 2334–2154 BCE), is widely ...

The woman—with skin, hair and nails still intact—belonged to the little-known Caral civilization, which flourished in Peru ...

Cuneiform tablets from ancient Babylon cover a range of topics, from exorcising ghosts to uncovering the location of Noah’s ...

Guided by a Rawi, travels through AlUla—a land where history is still being uncovered, art is reshaping the sands, and the ...

In the cradle of civilisation, illness wasn’t just a medical problem — it was a supernatural one. That’s why Mesopotamians ...

Not only are Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) cultists dishonest about the role of money, they also are dishonest about money‘s ...

Archaeologists working at a long-buried city in northern Iraq have unearthed clues that could rewrite part of Mesopotamia’s hidden story. The site, Kurd Qaburstan, sits in the Erbil region and may ...

In The Other Mohan in Britain’s Indian Ocean Empire, Amrita Shah investigates the voyages of one of Gandhi’s contemporaries: ...

A mecca for climbers, hikers, geologists and nature lovers today, the Troodos mountain range is the backbone of Cyprus ever ...