In part one historical and anthropological factors were discussed to understand their relevance for the present ethnic crisis in Sri Lanka and encourage racial-minded extremists to think differently to achieve ethnic harmony.
A set of five fossilized small dinosaur footprints from the Cretaceous period has been discovered in northwest China’s Gansu Province, believed to be among the smallest known dinosaur tracks in the world.
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In the city of La Lima in Honduras, there is a reception facility for repatriated immigrants. Almost every day, this place receives over a hundred deported Hondurans from the United States. Escalating
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This is the time of inqisām. A time of severance, of breaking apart, of the utter destruction of Gaza, the dissolution of its inhabitants, its communities, and its infrastructures, of lives and everything
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The Silk Roads The term Silk Road arose from the mind of German geographer Ferdinand Von Richthofen in the late 19th century. Still, its historical saga dates back to antiquity, which connected
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Ancient human retrovirus DNA could be one of the markers of susceptibility to mental illness—specifically schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depressive disorder, a new study suggests. An international team of researchers examined
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In History Today Dr. Tim Black, a British family planning pioneer tries to understand the origins of antisemitism, looking beyond the Holocaust to the ancient Middle East and Medieval Europe. Dr. Black,
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What occurred on the 11th of July, 1995, is sure to be considered the worst genocidal atrocity in Europe since World War II. Serbian troops, led by indicted war criminal General Ratko
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Madam Blavatsky’s name is not strange for Sri Lankans as one of the early stalwarts to aspire to the Buddhist resurgence in the late 19th century. In the backdrop of British-sponsored Missionary
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Poson was celebrated throughout the island by Sri Lankan Buddhists on the full moon poya day of June 21, 2024. Sri Lanka’s mainstream media including state media available online offered me little
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The fossil record of our ape ancestors in Africa is almost nonexistent for a period of about 8 or 9 million years. This long gap lasted from about 16.5 million to 7
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