In his new book Nalanda, breathtaking in its sweep and lyrical in its glory, the poet-diplomat Abhay K unearths with tender ...

Xi’an, often referred to as the “birthplace of civilisation,” is a city steeped in rich history and culture. Situated in central China, this remarkable city is over 3,000 years old, making ...

AN ANCIENT scroll that had nearly turned to charcoal ... pretty much the whole scroll in its entirety, and it's the first time we've really been able to say that with high confidence," said ...

(AP video produced by Javier Arciga) This image provided by NASA shows a view from orbit looking obliquely across the surface of the moon, where an ancient asteroid strike carved out a pair of grand ...

A new study claims to have identified the first speakers of Indo-European language, which gave rise to English, Sanskrit and hundreds of others. By Carl Zimmer In 1786, a British judge named ...

The nearly complete skull belongs to Vegavis iaai, a waterfowl species believed to be the ancient relative of modern-day ducks and geese.The species lived at the same time as dinosaurs like ...

The same Caucasus-Lower Volga ancestry also appeared in ancient Anatolia around this time. Based on this evidence, the researchers think that the earliest Indo-European languages were spoken by ...

After being over the moon at the discovery, Egyptologists were left in complete shock after opening a lost pyramid for the very first time. Located in the Dahshur, it is an Ancient Egyptian royal ...

Million-year-old air preserved in ancient ice holds clues to a mystery that has stumped scientists for decades: Why did the ice ages that once transformed Earth every 40,000 years begin to occur ...

Kring and his team estimate the asteroid was 15 miles (25 kilometers) across and that the energy needed to create these two canyons would have been more than 130 times that in the world’s ...

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