Ostracism is an ancient democratic tradition practiced in Athens that offers an alternative approach of imprisoning political ...

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

Palynologists who study tiny pollen fossils share 4 stories found in grains that fell hundreds to millions of years ago.

These famous riddles have puzzled readers from ancient times all the way to the present Riddles and brain teasers have ...

Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister, passed away on May 27, 1964. On his 61st death anniversary, we revisit ...

San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum is set to return four bronze statues from Thailand’s looted Prakhon Chai hoard.

International Tea Day was officially recognised by the United Nations in 2019 to highlight tea's cultural, economic, and ...

International Tea Day is marked annually on May 21. This annual observance celebrates tea’s profound cultural, economic, and ...

“That is unique. That is what makes them so special.” What we know about the Hittites is, by the standards of ancient history, incredibly new. Hittite writing wasn’t unlocked until ...

Ask the publishers to restore access to 500,000+ books. An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. A line drawing of the Internet Archive headquarters building ...

Words are powerful, capable even of changing the course of history. And those who speak ... While this idea had been around since the ancient Greeks, it was Galileo who first provided proof ...

They are by far the most successful tetrapod group, numbering more than 27,000 species of reptiles, birds and mammals. Ancient Humans Sat Down to Meals of Snakes and Lizards The Oldest Fossil Reptile ...