Bahata Ansumali (in pic), a software technologist turned researcher, was in town recently for the Kolkata Literary Meet.

With a lot of focus on anti-Semitism in the world today, the term has often been mistaken as exclusive to Jewish people.

A prize offered by an Indian state leader is intended to shed light on a Bronze Age civilization — and settle a cultural ...

British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans purchased some ancient stones with mysterious inscriptions on them at a flea market in ...

Various theories have been proposed. Could it be a Dravidian language, early Brahmi, an early Indo-Aryan language or even ...

On a late-summer day in 1856, a letter carrier stepped from a mail coach in front of a three-story townhouse in Mayfair, in ...

If not for the work of two scholars, Alice Kober and Michael Ventris, the ancient Greek script Linear B would likely still be a mystery.

Sheep have been intertwined with human livelihoods for over 11,000 years. As well as meat, their domestication led to humans ...

The undeciphered language likely comes from an ancient civilization, and understanding it could provide valuable insights ...

Colin Renfrew played a key part in transforming archaeology into a problem-oriented, theoretically explicit and ...

The Indus Valley Civilization's script remains undeciphered despite scholarly efforts and modern AI attempts. Tamil Nadu's ...

Ancient DNA analysis reveals that sheep were domesticated over 11,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent. By 8,000 years ago, ...