The Indian subcontinent’s connections to the West, especially via the Roman empire, were far richer than once thought.

Until further revelations come to light, the world waits in uneasy anticipation, wondering whether this ancient book holds a prophecy—or a warning.

The ruins of the School of Aristotle are located just two miles from the contemporary town of Naoussa, in the Greek region of ...

an ancient people who shaped history and created the world’s largest language family, now spoken by over 40% of humanity. Now research led by David Reich, a geneticist at Harvard Medical School ...

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When, at a slightly older age, I began to study death and the ancient world what struck me most, despite many fascinating cultural variants, was the uniformity, and limitation of the human ...

Except that, as William Dalrymple’s luminous new book shows, there was no Silk Road in the classical, ancient or even the early modern era. It was not a silken yarn that stitched together the ancient ...

These Letters from Egypt, which richly detailed her time in the country, were published a year later as a book. By vividly ... civilisations in the ancient world, but also how tourists travelled ...

The benefits of immersion in the ancient world should be available to all. The most obvious and immense is cultural literacy: students come to understand the significance of key figures and events ...

A medieval manuscript, believed to be the oldest Jewish book in the world, is now on view in New ... civilization along the Silk Road, the ancient trading route, and was created by Jews who ...