British politics has now entered a new and unpredictable phase. After their party’s smashing defeat at the latest election, ...

As of then, Indian civilization’s antiquity had been traced up to the 3rd century BCE – in Mauryan Buddhist Emperor Asoka’s ...

The Independent is trusted by 27 million Americans from across the entire political spectrum every ... Your support makes all the difference. British archaeologists have discovered a secret ...

The Curse of the Mummy, UC Santa Cruz Associate Professor of Literature Renee Fox and Associate Professor of History Elaine ...

Luke Auld-Thomas spotted the ancient Maya site in Campeche, overlooked by Mexican scientists, from old lidar data he was ...

From the expansive Mauryan Empire, which laid the brass tacks for a unified India, to the culturally rich Gupta Empire, maps ...

During the French Revolution, coins and medals were struck with revolutionary symbols, conveying ideals of liberty, equality, ...

Historical events through 2023 and 2024, and the shaping of politics and diplomacy, are providing intriguing insights into our world, bridging the past with a violent, volatile present.

Extractive institutions are structures that steal power and resources from the vast majority of population and concentrate ...

Some developments in the past fortnight lend credence to the claim that the phenomenon of slavery has not completely ceased ...

Exclusive: It's known as the Doomsday Book—a stack of papers in a classified safe listing extraordinary powers a President might use after a nuclear attack or other catastrophe. Some former Trump advi ...

Lothal's museum will showcase India's maritime heritage, but its true test lies in acknowledging the ‘forbidden sea’—the era when religious taboos restricted Hindu voyages ...