Today's WorldView How ancient India changed the world. The Indian subcontinent’s connections to the West, especially via the Roman empire, were far richer than once thought.

In fact, many palmistry experts and historians speculate that the practice began in ancient India and eventually spread to other countries, including China, Tibet, Persia, Egypt, Rome, and Greece ...

A fortune teller reading the palm of a soldier. Wellcome Collection, CC BY-NC. In England, a 1530 parliamentary act officially banished the “outlandish” people “calling themselves Egyptians ...