Sindoor, a symbol of auspiciousness for married Indian women, traces its origins back to the Harappan civilization and ...

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Tarquinia, on the west coast of Italy, was an ancient Etruscan city, and it's where Marco Contestabile grew up, surrounded by ...

We stand at the edge of a vast plain, deep in the Pilbara, surrounded by spinifex, tussock grasses and the cloying red dust ...

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Ruth First, born 100 years ago, was a South African freedom fighter, journalist and scholar who worked against the racist ...

It's widely considered one of the cradles of civilisation. But a new study has revealed that people living in ancient Egypt ...

The Amazons of Greek mythology, were fierce warrior women dwelling in the lands around and beyond the Black Sea. The greatest Greek heroes proved their valor by overcoming formidable Amazon queens ...

Now, thanks to ancient DNA and a sculptor’s art, we can meet her again.

We think of human rights abuses as wartime atrocities, but sometimes they involve what family members do to the people they ...

She was once called “the most dangerous woman in Africa.” But Andrée Blouin described herself as an African woman “inflamed by injustice” on a mission to free her continent from colonial rule. She was ...

Researchers from the Francis Crick Institute and Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) have extracted and sequenced the ...