The ancient universities of India were intellectual powerhouses that attracted scholars from distant lands interested in studying mathematics and astronomy as well as philosophy and medicine.

The first big project to show AI’s potential began life as a collaboration at the University of Oxford, UK, in 2017, where Thea Sommerschield was doing a PhD in ancient history and Yannis Assael ...

The Ancient Babylonians established the first known practice of setting new year pledges, a tradition that has endured for over 4,000 years. Photograph by World History Archive, Alamy Stock Photo ...

Between 1892 and 1954, most immigrants arriving in the United States passed through New York’s Ellis Island control center. For those fleeing poverty and war, the “island of tears” was also ...

Stories like “Nickel Boys” are living history. “This is a present moment, not part of our past,” Ellis-Taylor said. Almost everyone has a cousin or knows someone who went to reform school ...

The answer, it turns out, traces back 3,000 to 4,000 years, to the ancient Babylonian festival ... professor of Roman history in the department of classics at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Every year brings new discoveries from ancient Egypt and 2024 was no exception. In this countdown, Live Science takes a look at 10 fascinating discoveries from the past year. When you purchase ...

Multi-national corporation Rolf C. Hagen first made headlines in ... In an earlier interview, Mayor Neil Ellis said “it’s great to add another corporate name settling in our park.

A realistic history tells us that the thinkers and engineers of the Anglosphere, principally England and the U.S., are the heroes, not the villains, of this story, while the rest were laggards ...

Officials have announced a number of discoveries during excavations around the valley temple of the powerful Egyptian queen, who reigned during the 15th century B.C.E. Sarah Kuta The chamber holds ...

Sophie Ellis-Bextor has responded after some branded her New Year's Eve show "cringe." The Queen of Disco put on a show-stopping performance on Tuesday night as she helped BBC One viewers ring in ...

THERE was a double dose of Sophie Ellis-Bextor on the box last night - but some Brit viewers branded her BBC performance as "awkward and breathless". The Murder on the Dancefloor star, 45 ...