A correspondence about an ancient Greek letter that was eaten by mice is certainly one of the funniest anecdotal ...

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 ...

World Football Day celebrates the power of football to unite people across cultures, nations, and backgrounds.

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

Due to deliberate misrepresentation of facts and false information, White people had deceived many ignorant and learned people as well in the world that they had originated every good thing that ...

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

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