By University of Cambridge. Evidence for a forgotten ancient language which dates back more than 2,500 years, to the time of the Assyrian Empire, has been found by archaeologists working in Turkey. Detail from the tablet found at Ziyaret [...]

  By Subodh Rana.   “It is a curse to live to be this old”, the dowager maharani reflected to herself. Her woebegone days were here to stay with her; would she have had the honor of committing sati after the death of [...]

By Alton Parrish. A team of international archaeologists including Christian Cloke of the University of Cincinnati is providing new insights into successful and extensive water management and agricultural production in and around the ancient [...]

  By Don Hagist. The early military career of William Baylis, a laborer from Anvill in Staffordshire, is not known. Born in 1741, he joined the army at a young age in 1755 and apparently was discharged again twenty years later; we’ve [...]

Nevada Petroglyphs Could Be 14,800 Years Old, America’s Oldest Art By University of Boulder Colorado. A new high-tech analysis led by a University of Colorado Boulder researcher shows the oldest known petroglyphs in North America, which [...]

By University of Leicester. This is a photo of the mudbrick village with castle like structure visible in the center of the image. Credit: Photo by Toby Savage. Satellite imagery has uncovered new evidence of a lost civilization of the [...]

By University of Colorado Boulder. Origin of skillful stone-tool-sharpening method pushed back more than 50,000 years Researchers discover oldest evidence of pressure flaking in South African cave. A highly skillful and delicate method of [...]

By Alton Parrish. Gobekli Tepe, the world’s oldest known temple, dating back more than 10,000 years is located near the ancient city of Şanlıurfa. Göbekli Tepe is an early Neolithic sanctuary located at the top of a mountain ridge [...]

  By Alton Parrish. A rare 17th-century Latin American document that was “lost” for nearly a century resurfaced earlier this year. The kicker: It was right where it should have been all along – in the American Geographical [...]

By Alton Parrish. What exactly happened in the Danish village of Alken around the time of the birth of Christ? Who were the over two hundred victims, and what events led to such an enormous sacrifice? In 2009, near the small town of Alken, [...]

          By Subodh Rana. Prime Minister Jung Bahadur Rana left England for France with a rich treasure trove of memories and an ambition his experiences in Britain had fueled for his own poor and backward nation. [...]

By Alton Parrish. A small, flat-faced, yapping dog named Looty has a big story behind him.  And it goes back centuries. For most Westerners, the story starts in 1842, when a small British squadron blasted China’s war junks in the [...]

By University of Chicago. Analysis of a 440-year-old document reveals new details about native population decline in the heartland of the Inca Empire following Spanish conquest in the 16th century. According to the analysis, the native Andean [...]

  By Alton Parrish.   Despite the fact that it’s only been in existence for roughly the last two decades, it’s become difficult to imagine what the world was like pre-internet. An entire generation of teens and young adults [...]

By Marry Edwards. Finding accurate statistics on adultery rates is very difficult. The most accurate way to get data is through face to face interviews and most people are unwilling to disclose extramarital affairs when they know their identity [...]

    By Fadi Husseini. Regularly, when spring comes, people expect flowers and green shoots and optimism prevails. Alas, things in the Middle East are quite different. With every spring that comes, people recall the outbreak of the [...]

  By Subodh Rana.   Maharajah Juddha’s Manor House I am writing about the time Bodhnath was the only structure standing and miles around it there was free space and farming land. Somewhere in the vicinity people say [...]

By Hebrew University.   A joint excavation led by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Israel Antiquities Authorities discovered two of the largest structures ever uncovered from the Kingdom of Judea, the Israel Antiquities Authorities [...]

  By University of South Hampton. Archaeologists from the University of Southampton studying a Neolithic archaeological site in central Greece have helped unearth over 300 clay figurines, one of the highest density for such finds in south-eastern [...]

  By Alton Parrish. A tiny mountainous region in southern Siberia may have been the genetic source of the earliest Native Americans, according to new research by a University of Pennsylvania-led team of anthropologists.Lying at the intersection [...]