Archeologists working at White Sands National Park in  New Mexico may have uncovered the earliest known traces of such a ...

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, and a bit of the backstory of the shameful pardon of the former Honduran president.

The need to carry letters was a big driver for creating scheduled transport links between towns and cities. The scourge of ...

Arrowood International founder and CEO Adrian Praveen opines that a human touch will always be at the heart of global h.

An art lover’s view of the city museums For a medium-sized capital city, Lisbon has a proliferation of public art collections ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Jordan, Oman, and Ethiopia could help forge partnerships under India’s MAHASAGAR ...

Traditional economic theory celebrates banks as intermediaries that mobilise savings and convert them into productive investments. Joseph Schumpeter, the great economist of innovation, described banks ...

The book begins before civilisation’s dawn—in what McDonald calls “the time before progress”, when human life was still embedded in the natural world ...

Over 8,000 years ago, early farming communities in northern Mesopotamia were already thinking mathematically—long before ...

Rising from the plains of southern Iraq, the Great Ziggurat of Ur was built around 2050 BCE as a sacred link between heaven ...

Hebrew University researchers uncovered 8,000-year-old pottery showing floral patterns built on precise geometric ...