I refer to the above headed article in the Colombo Telegraph of 8th December 2025 by M.S. Thambirajah (MST) and would like to ...

The Indus Valley Civilization has long stood as one of humanity’s great enigmas, a Bronze Age society that mastered urban ...

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

“Vande Mataram was composed at a time when, after the 1857 freedom struggle, the British Empire was unsettled and imposed ...

Politicians love to take liberties with history. The BJP (and the government) accused the Congress of mutilating the National ...

Over the years people have become aware about Kalash who claim Greek ancestry, but in South Asia there are other tribes ...

Myth, rumour and a deluge of tourists (Picture: Numan Bhat) Along the upper stretch of the Indus River, hidden between steep rocky hills, lie the small villages of Ladakh, once promoted as ‘The Last ...

The Fertile Crescent, a boomerang-shaped region spanning modern-day Middle Eastern countries, is considered the cradle of civilization and where farming first emerged. But little is known about how ...

Successive major droughts, each lasting longer than 85 years, were likely a key factor in the eventual fall of the Indus Valley Civilization, according to a paper published in Communications Earth & ...

For a long time, archaeologists believed that large buildings required large bosses. The idea was simple: only societies with strong hierarchies (kings, priests, and planners) could organize massive ...

The famed “Band of Holes” known as Monte Sierpe in the Andes of Peru have puzzled scientists for a century. New research suggests the holes were the site of an ancient marketplace. The Inca rulers may ...

New research shows that the rise of Sumer was deeply tied to the tidal and sedimentary dynamics of ancient Mesopotamia. Early communities harnessed predictable tides for irrigation, but when deltas ...