Alexander had a love-hate relationship with his father, King Philip II of Macedonia. While at times he appeared to be the ...

Within two years, the Mongols utterly annihilated the empire: they sacked and destroyed its cities, chased the shah into ...

In a Bihar village, Pallavi Raj uses Kathak to empower schoolgirls, transforming a temple courtyard into a sanctuary of ...

by prohibiting marriage with outsiders. China, like India, was hit hard by industrialisation. The Europeans conquered the Mandala states of India realising that the Indian way (even after 600 years of ...

One of the big contentions of popular historian William Dalrymple’s latest book “The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World,” which came out in the United States a few weeks ...

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Ancient China began as a group of isolated communities during the Stone Age and eventually grew into a formidable empire. Ancient Chinese people developed their own writing system and several ...

Scientists have identified a new pod of ancient hunter-gatherers who lived near the land bridge between North America and South America about 6,000 years ago.Researchers are still charting how ...