Bahata Ansumali (in pic), a software technologist turned researcher, was in town recently for the Kolkata Literary Meet.

A prize offered by an Indian state leader is intended to shed light on a Bronze Age civilization — and settle a cultural ...

Its value as the key that unlocked the meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphs is world-famous—but the turbulent history surrounding ...

The Indus Valley script has baffled experts for over a century, its meaning lost to time. Now, the Indian government is ...

A tantalizing $1 million prize has been announced for anyone who can crack one of history’s most elusive puzzles: the Indus ...

Dr. Stone is going to the moon! Eventually! After season 3 revealed post-apocalyptic science prodigy Senku Ishigami's ultimate goal of traveling to the lunar surface to reverse the process that ...

OK Go are back with a new single titled “A Stone Only Rolls Downhill,” which — per tradition — was paired with another clever music video from the always inventive band. The visual ...

Hieroglyphs from ancient Egypt originally started as a pictographic writing system before transitioning into a logosyllabic system. An example of early Egyptian pictographic writing can be seen in ...

"It has been a big wake-up call, and this is the reason why the government recently announced a big emergency package," said Ahmed Mortada, head of energy in Egypt for multilateral lender the ...

For many years, Egypt and Syria shared Soviet patronage, briefly formed a short-lived, failed union (the United Arab Republic), and fought monumental battles against their mutual Israeli adversary.

At that time, Egypt resorted to nationalising the Suez Canal in 1956 to secure the financial resources necessary for constructing the High Dam, leading to the signing of the agreement for the ...

The most famous multilingual inscription is the Rosetta Stone, which contains a decree passed during the reign of Ptolemy V ... compared to contemporaneous ancient civilisations in Mesopotamia and ...