Ancient India has been a cradle of innovation, offering groundbreaking contributions to science, mathematics, medicine, and ...

Every blade tells a story. In this project, we take raw materials - scrap metal, old tools, and even motorcycle chains - and forge them into razor-sharp, high-performance knives. Watch as steel is ...

This year’s Memorial Day for Israel’s Fallen Soldiers, which will be marked next week, carries a deeper meaning than ever.

In recently published, two-volume issues on Ancient Metallurgy by the journal Materials and ... and etched to get the well wavy light and dark patterns of the wootz or Damascus steel blade, which was ...

They are carved into your memory with a steel scalpel. They are always one-sided ... whatever it is.” When my ancient but previously reliable recording device dies in the first minutes of the first ...

The faces of 2025’s warlords are no longer crowned with laurels or medals. They wear the polished smiles of Silicon Valley, ...

When a delegation of US Jews visited Syria at the invitation of the interim government in February, one of their stops was to a small shrine in a corner of Damascus’s Jewish cemetery.

At the National Museum of Damascus, glass cases hold tantalizing glimpses of the wealth of ancient Palmyra. They include delicate Roman glass containers for eyeliner and brightly colored fragments ...

When Western tourists who are visiting Istanbul, Turkey, cruise into a port, many typically look for one particular landmark: the Hagia Sophia. Identifying the ancient temple, which has served as ...