Dani was not just Pakistan’s most influential archaeologist, but also its most insistent storyteller, often called the “founding father of archaeology”.
No independent Arab state of “Palestine” ever existed in history. The very concept of Palestine as a standalone territorial ...
The myth of Soma and his wives and curse by the father of one of them has been described as a way to link the deity at ...
The 1850 discovery of King Ashurbanipal's vast library of cuneiform tablets at Nineveh illuminated fascinating records and ...
Chicago Budrovich, Nicole. “Ancient Glass in the Getty Museum: History of the Collection.” In Ancient Glass in the J. Paul Getty Museum, by Anastassios Antonaras ...
Iranian police deliberately fire at the protestors’ eyes. A deeply rooted act of repression that is older than the Islamic ...
One of Israel’s leading archaeologists, he found evidence that the writing of the Old Testament likely began much earlier ...
Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's regime is facing scrutiny for widespread human rights violations amid weeks-long protests.
Medina al-Zahira is tied to one of the most powerful and controversial figures of late Umayyad al-Andalus: Almanzor (al-Manṣūr). While the caliphs reigned, Almanzor is remembered as the de facto ...
It is rare that the usual social media active personalities like Arfa Khanam Sherwani, Rana Ayyub, Saba Naqvi, RJ Sayema, Sagarika Ghose, and their ilk remain suspiciously silent on anything, even if ...
There are atrocities of history which he did not mention. The Buddha Vihar were destroyed, Jain temples were smashed, ...
Iran’s past is admired precisely because it is mummified — culturally contained and politically non-threatening. This does ...