Whether it’s the luxury of truffles, the sensuality of oysters, or the heat of chilli, these foods carry histories of passion ...

Throughout history, clothing has not only served as a basic necessity but has also been a powerful form of expression, a ...

By 1600 b.c., less than one in 20 bones found at sites in the Levant typically come from pigs, and most of those appear to be ...

Prof Suresh Chander The Swastika is one of the oldest and most universally recognized symbols in human history, transcending ...

The world’s oldest map unlocks secrets from 3,000 years ago revealing how our ancestors understood the world. The Babylonian ...

As we saw in Egypt and Mesopotamia, the leap from village to ... Above all, the animal images on the seals are a series of symbols - one looks like an oval shield; others look like matchstick ...

The earliest-known writing dates back to around 3500 - 3100 BC in Mesopotamia ... alphabets were created where symbols could represent consonants, vowels, syllable sounds, or meanings.

Bahata Ansumali (in pic), a software technologist turned researcher, was in town recently for the Kolkata Literary Meet.

A prize offered by an Indian state leader is intended to shed light on a Bronze Age civilization — and settle a cultural ...

This is the twelvth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time in ...