What were books like in ancient Greece and Rome? the oldest known writing dates to around 5000 BCE. It origins are mysterious ...

The Road to Heaven begins as a promise rather than a direction. Stretching out from Khavda toward Dholavira in Gujarat, it ...

Have you heard of a study gallery within a museum where 20 universities are invited to devise their own curriculum based on a ...

Know about the history and legacy of Sir Alexander Cunningham, the ‘Father of Indian Archaeology’, and his significant ...

Some ancient writing systems cannot be deciphered. Can artificial intelligence help crack the codes of the past?

Lalit Mengi lkmengi@rediffmail.com India had blazed a trail across the world, in the millennium and a half from 250 BC to ...

A phone call regarding a long-form article she had written eight years ago sparked the beginning of this book, Sowmiya Ashok recalls. A writer said that it had a story to tell, a potential to be a ...

Languages have always been the key to understanding human culture and history. However, some languages have been lost to time, leaving behind fascinating puzzles for linguists and historians. These ...

The discovery in January of two new mounds at the ancient Harappan site of Rakhigarhi in Haryana, India, now makes it the largest known site of the Harappan (Indus Valley) civilisation, even outdoing ...

The Indus Valley civilization, also known as the Harappan civilization, was the earliest known urbanized ancient culture that emerged on the Indian subcontinent between 2500–1700 BC, and according to ...

The culprit behind the mysterious disappearance of one of the most advanced urban civilizations at the time, contemporaries to Mesopotamians and Egyptians, has finally been identified: a series of ...

The Nomination files produced by the States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to ...