It began more than a century ago, deep within the ancient turquoise mines of Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. There, faint carvings ...

In a stunning turn of events, archaeologists in Frankfurt, Germany, have uncovered a 1,800-year-old silver amulet, believed to be the earliest known evidence of Christianity north of the Alps. This ...

Moses is a well-known religious figure across major religions of the world. Several investigations about his life have been conducted across decades, but to date, nobody has found evidence of his ...

While one bemoans the loss of heritage, there is also some exciting news for those interested in Bengaluru’s local history. A project to digitise inscriptions has found 43 hitherto undocumented ...

Architectural inscriptions are a fascinating aspect of our cultural heritage because of their rich and diverse historical ...

A proposal will be placed before the state government to shift the inscription to a prominent location such as the Ujjaini Mahankali temple in Secunderabad.

AMMAN — In “Royal Correspondence in the Hellenistic Period” (published in 1934), American historian Charles Bradford Welles (1901-1969) gathered a collection of inscriptions in Greek and Latin as a ...

Chennai: The inscriptions at the ancient temple at Thiruvotriyur, where at least five Chola kings besides a Pandya king prayed and all of whom patronised the shrine lavishly, are replete with details ...

Last month, I was at the iconic red-brick building of the Government Museum on Kasturba Road in Bengaluru behind which an exhibition called Inscription Stones of Bangalore was under way. On display ...

History cannot be written without archaeological and literary sources. From these sources, historians explore and try to understand what happened in the past. Here, we are giving the difference ...