By Alton Parrish.   Going back to before the War of Independence, how many conversations in bars, over a beer, ale, or cider, have possibly inspired revolutions in art or in politics? When you take into account the pubs and cafes across [...]

  By Alton Parrish. For thousands of years, scientists from around the world have tried to understand how the Egyptians erected their giant pyramids. Now, an architect and researcher at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology [...]

  By Alton Parrish. As modern Egypt searches for a new leader, Israeli archaeologists have found evidence of an ancient Egyptian leader in northern Israel. At a site in Tel Hazor National Park, north of the Sea of Galilee, archeologists [...]

    By Alton Parrish. The Cyrus Cylinder, sometimes referred to as the first “bill of human rights,” traces its origins to the Persian king Cyrus the Great’s conquest of Babylon in the sixth century B.C. Almost 2,600 years later, [...]

  By University of Haifa.   The earliest evidence of using flower beds for burial, dating back to 13,700 years ago, was discovered in Raqefet Cave in Mt. Carmel, during excavations led by the University of Haifa. In four different [...]

  By Alton Parrish.   Researchers from Tübingen document origins of agriculture in the Zagros foothills of Iran For decades archaeologists have been searching for the origins of agriculture. Their findings indicated that early plant [...]

  By Subodh Rana.   Young Queen Jindan Kaur of the Punjab The last queen of the Punjab had finally reunited with her son in England. Reclining on her divan in the balcony of her Lancaster Gate residence she squinted at the [...]

  By Dr. Eilat Mazar. A section of an ancient city wall of Jerusalem from the tenth century B.C.E. – possibly built by King Solomon — has been revealed in archaeological excavations directed by Dr. Eilat Mazar and conducted under [...]

  By Alton Parrish. A dictionary of thousands of words chronicling the everyday lives of people in ancient Egypt — including what taxes they paid, what they expected in a marriage and how much work they had to do for the government [...]

By Alton Parrish. A large, sophisticated civilization that once built one of the largest cities in the world left behind hundreds of works of art, carved or painted on rocks in the open air or deep in caves in the Appalachian Mountains in [...]

  by Subodh Rana. Just over two decades back if you happened to be in the center of Kathmandu city around mid-day you would likely get a near heart-attack when suddenly a loud canon fire deafened and rocked you. It was liberal minded Maharajah [...]

  By University of Cincinnati. A recent find by a University of Cincinnati archeologist suggests an ancient Cypriot city was well protected from outside threats. The University of Cincinnati’s most recent research in Cyprus reveals [...]

  By Peter Jupp. You’ve never heard of Sodom and Gomorrah? These were two cities of ancient Israel that God’s wrath devastated and buried under the murky salt of today’s Dead Sea. The citizen’s indulged in gambling, drinking and [...]

    By Alton Parrish. Archaeologists have unearthed the great ancient monuments of Ostia, but the location of the harbour which supplied Rome with wheat remained to be discovered. Thanks to sedimentary cores, this « lost » harbour [...]

By Alton Parrish. Some of the world’s oldest engravings of the human form – prehistoric rock art from the Italian Alps – have been brought to life by the latest digital technology at Cambridge University’s Museum of Archaeology [...]

  By Duke University. Sociologist shows how social network analysis can single out key conspirators. Paul Revere Credit: Wikipedia Duke Sociologist Kieran Healey of the Kenan Institute for Ethics has written a brief primer on how [...]

  By Doug Valentine.   Dirty Wars and the Cinema of Self-Indulgence Let me begin with some background not covered in the film.  Dirty War derives from “La Sale Guerre”, the term the French applied to their counter-terror campaign [...]

    By Juan Cole. Gregory Harms writes in a guest op-ed for Informed Comment The influential Egyptian Islamist cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi recently issued a fatwa, or religious proclamation, with regard to Syria. The sheik called for [...]

  By Subodh Rana.   The booming cannon volleys heralding Nepal’s transformation to a republic for the 5th year running woke me up from my deep slumber even as the motley crew of the canine population of our neighborhood started [...]