CHENNAI: In a discovery that reinforces the footprint of ancient Tamil civilisation across the globe, around 30 inscriptions, the majority of them in Tamil Brah ...

The linguistic diversity suggests that people from different parts of the Indian subcontinent travelled to Egypt between the 1st and 3rd centuries AD, likely for trade in spices and other valuable ...

For historians, the implications are immediate. They reveal how ancient traders from the subcontinent interacted with the ...

The presence of Tamil-Brahmi deep in the Nile Valley—far from the maritime hubs—provides concrete proof of a sophisticated 'Indian Diaspora' in the first and second centuries CE ...

Tamil Brahmi inscriptions in Egypt reveal ancient trade links between Tamilagam, India, and the Roman Empire, highlighting ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a 7,500-year-old clay female figurine near Sfântu Gheorghe in central Romania, the National ...

Nora doesn’t have the name recognition—or crowds—of Pompeii. But the well-preserved coastal settlement offers travelers a ...

An international team of researchers has established that a small and long-forgotten copper alloy tool, excavated a century ...

In a BBC archive clip, archaeologist Howard Carter describes the moment on 12 February 1924 when he and his team became the first people in 3,300 years to meet the Egyptian boy king.

Archaeologists in Bulgaria have uncovered 6,500-year-old gold artefacts in an ancient grave, revealing evidence of early ...

The Saqqara Pyramid Race returns as the Saqqara Half Marathon, adding a new 21K route through Egypt’s ancient necropolis.

A forgotten grave near the Black Sea holds the world’s oldest processed gold, and a chilling clue to the rise and fall of ...