Genghis Khan, one of history’s most formidable conquerors, is being celebrated in modern Mongolia as a symbol of national unity, political strength and cultural identity, despite the mass killings and devastation that
Spain’s Congress has declassified a collection of documents related to the attempted coup of 23 February 1981, known as the 23-F, in a move that paradoxically reveals little that is truly new
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Forty years ago, a routine diving expedition off the remote Japanese island of Yonaguni turned into one of the most controversial archaeological debates in modern history. What diver Kihachiro Aratake discovered beneath
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Nearly four decades after the explosion that defined the world’s worst nuclear disaster, the ruins of Reactor No 4 at the Chernobyl power plant have вновь become a source of global тревога.
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Ancient oceans may have been dominated not only by fearsome marine reptiles but also by colossal octopus-like creatures, according to new research published in Nature. Scientists studying fossilized jaws have identified extinct
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Every April 24, the Armenian world pauses in collective remembrance of a catastrophe that still defines its identity and politics. The date marks the beginning of the genocide carried out by the
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Race is a social construct used to categorize humans into groups based on shared physical traits (such as skin colour, hair texture, or facial features) or ancestry. Modern science views race as
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A Neanderthal infant skeleton described in research highlighted by New Scientist has revealed that our ancient relatives may have started life significantly larger and grown far more rapidly than modern human babies.
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At four in the morning, tragedy in Chernobyl has a way of announcing itself. It did so on April 26, 1986, when a telephone rang in the home of Olexander Zelentsov, calling
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Thamirabarani River (Sanskrit: Tāmraparṇī), is located in the Thoothukudi and Tirunelveli districts of Tamil Nadu, South India. It is on the southeast coast of India, and it sits directly across the Gulf of Mannar from the north-western coast of
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On 20 January 2026, the UK government formally approved plans for a new Chinese mega-embassy at Royal Mint Court in the City of London, ending months of intense political debate, security reviews,
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Sixty-five years after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, newly declassified documents have shed stark new light on one of the most consequential intelligence failures of the Cold War, revealing how close
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Newly declassified archival material has revealed a little-known and deeply controversial episode in the history of Israel’s pre-state underground movements, detailing efforts by the militant group Lehi to establish contact with Nazi
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Standing in the dust of Çatalhöyük—a 9,000-year-old Neolithic site known to archaeology since the 1960s, yet virtually non-existent in discussions about political science and law—a question haunted me: “How come no one told
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Shariati and Fanon The intellectual relationship between Shariati and Frantz Fanon is one of the most fertile and least studied of the twentieth century. Shariati did not merely admire Fanon; he
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In Ratnapura district, the Kalatuwawa Reservoir has revealed a long-lost village as water levels have dropped by 38.5 feet due to dry weather in March 2026. The reservoir, an artificial water body
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