Today, olive oil is often hailed as helping to protect against disease, but beliefs in its medicinal or even sacred properties date back millennia.

Statues of gods featured prominently throughout the ancient world, but many of those that are best known from literary evidence have never been found. These include the nearly 40-foot-tall ivory and ...

Carved on a disk about the size of a dinner plate was writing in an unknown language. The debate has raged for a century: Is ...

Diver interest is rising sharply, with 5,000 visitors in 2024 and expectations of 10,000 divers in 2025. Kaşdemir described ...

For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets and translators to dissect the poems they’ve published in our pages.

Between the mid-sixth and mid-fourth centuries B.C., Buddhism was founded in northeastern India and soon spread throughout the Asian subcontinent, influencing cultural and spiritual practices, art, ...

Often something handed down from generation to generation becomes your most treasured possession, be it your grandmother’s wedding ring, your grandfather’s WWII dog tags, or your mother’s silver. This ...

The mystery deepens when we discover that ancient Greek temples, built thousands of miles away and centuries later, encoded the same geodetic principles—their measurements directly derived from the ...

This special report covers the shocking incident from Bengaluru's Devarabisanahalli, where a man identified as Kabir Mondol, an alleged Bangladeshi national, was detained for an act of sacrilege.

A person is in hospital after they were 'taken unwell' outside a train station. Officers were called to Temple Meads Railway Station this morning at around 10:45am (November 4), where the person was ...

For 45-year-old K Ravi Naidu from Palasa in Srikakulam district of Andhra Pradesh, the turnout of 15,000 devotees was “totally unexpected” For 45-year-old K Ravi Naidu from Palasa in Srikakulam ...