17+ hour, 37+ min ago  (1131+ words) Today, lions are either identified with Africa or with India's Gir Forest. They do occur in the history of the Roman Empire, in stories from the Bible's Old Testament, in Mesopotamian cultures from West Asia like Babylon and Assyria. However,…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (595+ words) March is Women's History Month in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia. As the month winds up, Kensington Palace, the childhood home of Queen Victoria, is paying homage to another royal, albeit one whose story is mostly unknown in…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (647+ words) The Indus Valley Civilisation urban centre of Mohenjo-daro, today in Pakistan's Sindh province, had democracy that was on par with ancient Greece and Rome, a new study has found. A team of researchers analysed archaeological and historical evidence from 31 ancient…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (698+ words) Even as Iran continues to dominate the news cycle on account of its war with Israel and the United States, media coverage has continued to uncover civilisational links between Zoroastrian Persia and ancient India. One particularly intriguing story is that…...

4+ week, 18+ hour ago  (377+ words) The popular belief that one in 200 men is related to Genghis Khan, first Khagan of the Mongol Empire, is not true, a study by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has claimed. Rather, the genetic legacy of the empire, the largest contiguous…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (722+ words) The ongoing war between the US and Israel and Iran has sparked much curiosity and interest about the West Asian country in India and abroad. Recent coverage in traditional and social media has hovered around the rich ancient history and…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (603+ words) The world knows the Inca Empire, the largest native polity in the Americas before the arrival of Europeans. But before it, there flourished another state, one of farmers, traders, fishers and diplomats. The secret of their economy and subsequent power…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (20+ words) Exploring historical geographies reveals how past landscapes shaped societies, influencing cultural and economic development. Simply Put: Geographies of the past...

7+ mon, 2+ week ago  (945+ words) The African Union is advocating for the adoption of the 2018 Equal Earth projection to accurately represent Africa's size, challenging the long-standing Mercator Projection. The AU criticizes the Mercator map for distorting Africa's true size, perpetuating stereotypes that affect media, education,…...

7+ mon, 4+ week ago  (639+ words) A new study suggests that Napoleon's Grand Armee perished during the 1812 retreat from Moscow due to a combination of fatigue, cold, and diseases like paratyphoid fever and louse-borne relapsing fever. Researchers sequenced ancient DNA from soldiers' teeth, identifying pathogens that…...