Ancient India was home to one of the world’s earliest and most influential civilizations. Its people developed systems of thought, culture, and knowledge that would spread far beyond its borders. From ...

A view of a barren landscape of the Langqen-Zangpo (upper Sutlej) river valley near Tsaparang, the capital city of ancient Guge Kingdom in the western Tibet, approximately 150 km from Sahiya Cave, ...

For most of us, the Pythagorean theorem is one of the first big ideas we learn in mathematics. A simple rule connecting the ...

A century ago, UChicago scholars argued a controversial idea: Western civilization had its roots in the ancient Middle East—not in Greece or Rome. Today, scholars at the OI and across the University ...

The author is assistant professor (History) at the Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, Delhi University. Women’s empowerment is a pressing issue in the 21st century. It’s heartening to note that women’s ...

Archaeology sometimes raises more questions than it answers. How do you explain a city that bustled with activity one day only to be buried under feet of silt the next? Or walls that collapsed in an ...