It is believed that the bikini was a 20th century invention, but an ancient mosaic reveals women in Rome wore it while ...

Scribes in Ancient Egypt suffered hip, spine and shoulder problems from sitting cross-legged with their head bent forwards for hours on end, new research suggests. The study of 4,000-year-old male ...

A joint archeological mission revealed the original colors of the Edfu Temple, as well as never-before-seen hieroglyphic ...

Scheidel, Walter 2003. The Greek demographic expansion: models and comparisons. The Journal of Hellenic Studies, Vol. 123, Issue. , p. 120.

India is underrated in the conventional pecking order of great civilisations and empires. William Dalrymple, who has ...

Just as the story of an epic poem is woven from characters and plot, so too the individual similes within an epic create a unique simile world. Like any other story, it is peopled by individual ...