The history of the Greek Pontics in India, their journey from Turkey and Iran, and their unique cultural practices.

The Milindapañha recounts the Socratic-like dialogue of an Indo-Greek king, Menander, and his conversion. Could it be true?

Do you know how many global geoparks India has? UNESCO has recently added 16 new sites to its Global Geoparks Network. But ...

A rally outside Victoria's parliament is demanding the state government abandon plans to remove ancient trees for a highway upgrade. The trees, considered sacred by Indigenous people, are set to be ...

This Easter, the Ten Commandments Scroll offers a unique opportunity to glimpse the most ancient copy of what God decreed to Moses on Mount Sinai. It is also a season that offers a unique ...

Ancient viruses have been discovered in chilled clumps of mammoth samples (Picture: Getty Images) Both only infect amoeba, which are single-cell organisms, and do not pose any harm to humans.

2. Orientalist Charles Wilkins translated the Bhagavad Gita into English. 3. Arthur William Ryder was an American Sanskritist who is known for the translation of Panchatantra and Bhagavad Gita. The ...

At a newly dated 5,200 years old, the Flagstones monument in southern England is now the oldest known large stone circle in Britain. Radiocarbon dating of some of the artifacts and remains buried ...

(Related: Rediscovering China’s ancient Tea Horse Road, a branch of the famous Silk Road.) Nuodeng, a former Tea Horse Trail town, has some of the best-preserved examples of traditional Bai ...

The Supreme Court of Singapore has set aside an arbitral award passed by a tribunal presided over by former Chief Justice of India Dipak Mishra upon finding that almost half of the contents of the ...

Archaeologists excavating the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the ancient church in Jerusalem situated where Jesus Christ was crucified and buried, recently found evidence of ancient olive trees and ...

An ancient civilization on Mars was wiped out by a nuclear attack from another alien race. It might sound like the plot of a science fiction novel, but Harvard scientist Dr John Brandenburg ...