GUSTASP and JEROO IRANI return from the island nation blessed to have witnessed nature at her creative best in a land where the past and present coexist peacefully Old habits die hard When Reverend Th ...

Arun Ganapathy follows Rama s trail to Lanka and back and discovers two interesting temples around RamanathapuramGo to Devipattinam sir There is a famous temple there said my driver en route to Ramesh ...

In a recent article, a computer engineer presents the unconventional argument that the true location of the biblical Garden of Eden lies beneath a popular Egyptian landmark.

These 12 parts are what we call the zodiac signs. Around the second millennium BC, ancient Babylonian astrology emerged. It all began with stargazing, when they started noticing the movement of ...

Recorded in cuneiform on clay tablets stored in the library of Assurbanipal, the ancient Babylonian king, the “Enūma Eliš” is a thrillingly violent tale of priapic and fertile deities ...

Necropolis of Tuvixeddu, a Punic necropolis in the Mediterranean. Credit: cristianocani / CC BY 2.0 For years, historians believed that the ancient Carthaginians were largely of Phoenician origin, ...

Deinosuchus could then have spread across the continent to inhabit coastal marshes on both sides of the ancient inland sea, and along North America’s Atlantic coast. The new study’s revised ...

Rather than designer luggage, the plane carried 18 ancient scrolls from the Vittorio Emanuele III National Library in Naples, Italy. The tightly rolled papyri were being transported to the Diamond ...

The "Eye of Horus," a depiction of a single stylized eye looking straight ahead, is found throughout ancient Egypt. The symbol is frequently seen in ancient burials — especially on a type of ...