A detailed look at how a Supreme Court judgment set in motion one of modern India’s most significant religious construction ...

From ancient cities buried beneath the sands to mummies revealing new secrets, 2021 brought a wave of remarkable archaeological discoveries. This roundup highlights the most groundbreaking finds—from ...

The oldest evidence for human ancestors using fire, dating back to between 1 million and 1.5 million years ago, comes from a ...

The documentary films and series that captured our attention this year feature famous people and ordinary people, as well as ...

The first man to see the Amphipolis tomb in Greece, talks about the Kasta grave and the ancient Greek treasures of ...

Chinese historians have long assumed that under China’s earliest imperial rulers, the Qin (221–206 B.C.) and Han (206 B.C.–A.D. 220) Dynasties, farmers turned over a fixed amount of their crops to the ...

During the second millennium B.C., the Hittite kings relied on their control of staple crops to maintain their expanding empire in central Anatolia, where rainfall was unpredictable. At ...