On the morning of 30 July 1929, a man carrying a small axe entered the upper terrace of the Sri Maha Bodhi in Anuradhapura and struck one of its principal branches several
Summary: In this provocative essay, Martina Moneke argues that the scientific name Homo sapiens no longer reflects the reality of human behavior. Despite our intelligence, humanity has repeatedly demonstrated arrogance and ethical blindness—systematically misrepresenting
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Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared in the latest issue of Finance & Development (F&D) magazine, published by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Ninth-century Baghdad, the seat of the Abbasid Caliphate, was
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New archaeological findings at a lavish villa outside ancient Pompeii are reshaping historians’ understanding of how some Roman slaves lived, according to reporting from the Times UK. Although enslaved people in ancient
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From October 20th – November 21st 1962, a little-remembered conflict raged between China and India. The skirmish damaged India’s Non-Aligned Movement affiliation, firmly placing the country in the West’s orbit, while fomenting decades of hostility between the neighbouring
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Archaeologists have revived the ancient voices of Neolithic Catalonia by analysing and playing conch-shell trumpets that were once used across settlements, caves and mining complexes between the late fifth and early fourth
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A new study published in Nature on November 26 has offered the most comprehensive look yet at the people of Shimao, a vast and socially complex late Neolithic settlement in northern Shaanxi.
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Ever since India attained independence, the countrymen have been remembering the great national leaders and freedom fighters on their birth anniversaries, particularly Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru. Continuing this trend, Prime Minister
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by Eric Fifty years ago, the United States confronted one of the darkest chapters in its postwar foreign policy when the Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence
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A new study published in the Journal of Public Affairs has challenged long-held assumptions about the 1962 India-China war, arguing that the conflict was driven not primarily by territorial disputes or diplomatic
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by Satchi When she was arrested by the Dutch, betrayed by some of her own people, Maria Sembatta, the Vanni chieftainess, reportedly looked at her captors with unbroken defiance and said, “I am
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Francisco Franco did not win the Spanish Civil War through strategic brilliance but through a brutal plan to crush and eliminate his opponents, according to renowned British historian Paul Preston. In a
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For two centuries, Letizia Bonaparte, mother of Napoleon, has been remembered as a formidable matriarch—stern, frugal, and often irascible. But according to historian and descendant Laetitia de Witt, Letizia, titled Madame Mère
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The National Security Archive (NSA) has released a new tranche of declassified material that it says restores key historical records the U.S. State Department quietly deleted from an official history of the
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Eighty years after Adolf Hitler’s death, scientists have sequenced his DNA, uncovering startling insights into the dictator’s biology and challenging long-held assumptions about his life. The groundbreaking research, highlighted in the Channel
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A remote mountainside in southern Peru known as Monte Sierpe contains roughly 5,200 enigmatic holes, long puzzling archaeologists, but new research reported by Live Science offers clues to their purpose. The holes,
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