When rolled on a moist clay tablet, these engravings left low-relief markings, signifying that the object's owner authorized ...

Ancient Greek kings used war elephants from Alexander to the Seleucids, shaping battles and empire-building across the Hellenistic world.

They conquered half the world — but their greatest victories were made of stone, steel, and science. In this journey through ...

At the upcoming 27th Mediterranean Archaeological Tourism Exchange, scheduled from October 30 to November 2, 2025, in Paestum, the Province of Latina will present the project “Appia Regina Viarum – ...

The Cultural Gem of South America, I had the Almost Famous moment — when Ben Fong-Torres realizes the seasoned rock and roll writer on the other end of the line is ...

We’ve all grown up hearing tales that started as “That couldn’t possibly be true…” and later morphed into “Wait — it was true ...

The ancient Greek engineer Mandrocles of Samos is credited with creating the Pontoon Bridge, which spanned the Bosphorus Strait.

Acupuncturist Gerad Kite performs pulse diagnosis for James Eden, a film producer and also co-writer of new book The Untapped Self, in London, on Sept 4. [Photo/Xinhua] LONDON — When film producer ...

Stories of ancient Roman artifacts and ruins being dug up in back gardens or disrupting construction projects are common. It seems that a British pensioner can hardly dig a new plot for potatoes, nor ...

The writers of antiquity thought very little of the people who lived on the fringes of their own empires and had even less regard for the societies that existed beyond them. When the Roman poet Ovid ...

For decades, Larsen & Toubro has been the default name for everything that needed to be built in India, from airports and refineries to metros. Its rise from a mid-sized contractor to an engineering ...

India carries an ancient lineage of tradition that has long shaped the very conception and crafting of its cities. Vastu Shastra is one such tradition, more a science than a belief, intimately woven ...