West Bengal’s tradition of patachitra is kept alive in Muslim-majority Naya village of Pingla block in Paschim Medinipur ...

Rare ultra-faint dwarf galaxies beyond the influence of other galaxies show evidence that star formation was stifled long ago ...

Court documents from an ancient tax fraud and forgery case show that tax evasion was an issue even 2,000 years ago.

In the UK, May has hitherto been a month of innocent delight and sacred observance, with no less than two bank holidays. On May Day - a festival of ancient origins that shares a date with ...

The Sterkfontein excavation site, which exposes the ancient deposits that once formed underground and contain Australopithecus ... Director of Research at the Sterkfontein Caves and co-author of the ...

Was Stonehenge an ancient calendar? A new study says no. The Carnac stones, located in Brittany in northwestern France, date back around 6,000 years. They consist of about 3,000 stones ...

IN the icy and swampy pasts of the ancient British Isles, colossal creatures were free to roam. Much has changed in the millenniums since - with the largest wild mammal in the UK today being the ...

Population of ancient Greece, Men weighing merchandise, side B of an Attic black-figure amphora. Credit: Marie-Lan Nguyen Wikimedia Commons CC BY 2.5 Estimating the population of ancient Greece is a ...

SCIENTISTS have made a "once in a lifetime" discovery in Pompeii after unearthing a stunning ancient luxury spa with thermal baths and stunning mosaic designs. The lavish private bath complex has ...

We are escaping the smog once again. This is becoming an annual pilgrimage. As the early morning train chugs myopically through a land of shifting shadows and ghosts, the sun, at last, bursts ...

These artifacts date back to the First Temple period (1200 to 586 B.C.) of ancient Israel, suggesting ritual and cultic practices took place close to the First Temple — the first Jewish temple ...

Amid the ashes of a funeral pyre, encased in burnt mud, was a papyrus scroll—the first to be found in mainland Greece. Dating of the document and the discovery its literary nature subsequently ...