This week we published a story on the website about the history of Grand Guignol, and two things struck me about this piece. The first thing is that it’s a deep, informative read about a topic that, ...

Indigenous people across Australia place tremendous cultural and customary value on many species and ecological communities. The very presence of a plant or animal species can trigger an Indigenous ...

A new research paper sheds light on India’s specialised knowledge of Asian elephants over thousands of years in the current context of rising human-elephant conflict (HEC). It highlights that valuable ...

Earthquake monitoring, steam engines, surgery, and advanced materials: A journey through ancient inventions that were ahead of their time—and did not survive. In the year 138 AD, in the imperial court ...

A groundbreaking announcement for the recovery of lost ancient literature was recently made. Using a non-invasive method that harnesses machine learning, an international trio of scholars retrieved 15 ...

A community near an ancient Buddhist archaeological site on Indonesia’s Sumatra Island has established a voluntary school to teach young people history and culture that dates back centuries. The ...

How did people in ancient times deal with the health complications that we use advanced techniques to treat today? Many think that ancient folk simply died of these complications or had to deal with ...

India's ancient knowledge should not remain confined to manuscripts, libraries: Vice President ...