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

The full scientific study, "A Unique Assemblage of Cremation Burial from Ḥorvat Tevet and Assyrian Imperial Rule in the ...

Cape Town and Chennai in recent years endured punishing droughts. Similar conditions afflicted Bengaluru and Hyderabad last ...

The blockbuster gallery Networks of the Past that opens today at CSMVS, marks a milestone in Mumbai and India’s cultural ...

In Mesopotamia, Egypt and the Indus valley, the first urban settlements were built around irrigated farmland. Flooded terrace fields for rice, corn and quinoa accompanied the spread of civilization in ...

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 ...

Rising from the plains of southern Iraq, the Great Ziggurat of Ur was built around 2050 BCE as a sacred link between heaven and earth. Dedicated to the moon god Nanna, it stood at the heart of one of ...

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

New research reveals that humanity’s earliest botanical art on ancient pottery featured complex mathematical patterns and ...

But in 2018, under the first Trump administration, the FOSTA-SESTA bill passed, criminalizing the online assistance, ...

Tehran’s water crisis shows how climate change and poor water management can push even large cities toward “day zero”. Indian ...

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 ...