Archaeologists in Poland have uncovered a rare iron instrument that appears to have been used to cut into human skulls more ...

Huge carved obelisks and stelas in northern Ethiopia were erected by the kings of the Aksum Empire, who ruled the Horn of Africa and Red Sea region for much of the first millennium A.D. The toppled ...

For decades, the RSS has pushed for indigenising education and “decolonising the Indian mind”. But, given the influence of Western knowledge systems and our entangled histories, it is easier said than ...

Nearly four millennia ago, a few hundred people or so called a city roughly the size of London’s Hyde Park in Kazakhstan home. They lived in rows of mud brick homes along the banks of the Irtysh River ...

1. Metalworking crafts : Metallurgy in ancient Persia ; Ore mining and metal smelting ; Bronze and iron founder ; Coppersmith, brazier, tinsmith, oven maker, and ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Mesopotamians, the ancient inhabitants of the land between the Euphrates and Tigris ...

Set on the western edge of Giza, just two miles from the Pyramids, the GEM is a remarkable new platform for Egypt’s ancient treasures. A complex of over half a million square metres, the museum offers ...