The oldest Tamil epics are based on women from mercantile families. It has nothing to do with warriors or priests. The ...

Merchants Millpond State Park invites the public to participate in a paddle to visit what is known as the “Big Tree.” That ...

The secrets of Britain’s connection with the world’s least known ancient civilizations - How Bronze Age British industry ...

The carob seed which became the modern carats shows how ancient Greeks devised ingenious ways to ensure fairness in trade.

Hundreds of years ago, Mangtuan was designated as the county's official paper-making village, and the paper made there was ...

An ancient military tomb and graves from the Egyptian, Greek, and Roman periods have been discovered at Tell Ruwad Iskandar, ...

A long-lost shipwreck has been uncovered off the coast of Turkey, revealing unexpected ties to ancient Gaza. Researchers ...

Not a marksman, many people believed that wind racing derived from ancient merchants, who used the hippisellon (cradle gambler) technique and megacamp much later to become a betting game. At the ...

For centuries, historians and linguists have been searching for the cradle of the Indo-Europeans, an ancient people who shaped history and created the world’s largest language family ...

Over a million years ago, ancient human ancestors sat down to shave flakes off bones, producing a tool with a carefully created sharp edge. According to Jackson Njau, an archaeologist at ...

Study co-lead Professor Tim Johnson, from Curtin University, said the discovery significantly challenged previous assumptions about our planet's ancient history. "Before our discovery, the oldest ...