Word of the day: OneiromancerToday's word of the day: Oneiromancer refers to a person who interprets dreams and looks for meaning within them.
10 Mar, 2026, 01.01 PM IST
When the Waters Receded… A 3,400-Year-Old Mystery SurfacedSevere drought in northern Iraq exposed a 3,400-year-old Bronze Age city, Kemune, submerged by the Mosul Dam. Archaeologists documented for...
01 Mar, 2026, 11.02 PM IST
Chakra-vriddhi: Why economists call it the eighth wonder and how people feared it as a force that could destroy livesIn India, interest was called vriddhi, meaning growth. When this growth itself was allowed to grow, the word used was chakra-vriddhi, circu...
22 Nov, 2025, 12.02 AM IST
The first ancient Egyptian genome is here, and it changes everything we knowScientists have unlocked the genetic code of an ancient Egyptian man. He lived near the pyramids around 4,500 years ago. The analysis revea...
27 Jul, 2025, 02.54 AM IST
10 Agatha Christie Novels: Collection of Murder Mysteries and Crime ThrillersIf you are someone who enjoys crime thrillers, detective fiction, and murder mysteries, then you’ll definitely love Agatha Christie’s style...
03 Feb, 2025, 07.52 PM IST
Humanity's preoccupation with the supernatural extends back to ancient MesopotamiaA fascination with the afterlife and other worlds is not new: ghost stories from all over the world prove it's been part of the human exper...
15 Nov, 2023, 07.02 PM IST
The Ahimsa seal of the IndusLong before horses existed in the world of commerce, at the time pyramids were being built in Egypt, and ziggurats in Mesopotamia, there ex...
29 Apr, 2023, 12.29 AM IST
Netflix series Ancient Apocalypse: All you need to know about presenter Graham HancockGraham Hancock: The Netflix series Ancient Apocalypse explores the prehistory of humans. It focuses on how Graham Hancock records his trave...
13 Nov, 2022, 02.59 PM IST
On 'Sharqat Day', homage paid to 114th Mahrattas for their supreme sacrifice in World War IIn this particular action, the unit won two Distinguished Service Orders, four Military Cross, six Indian Order of Merit, 16 Indian Disting...
29 Oct, 2022, 07.18 PM IST
What lapis lazuli tells about the power establishment in ancient India?Power in ancient India was established not by the accumulation of material wealth, but by the aesthetic denial of material development.
19 Feb, 2022, 12.03 AM IST
Award-winning author Subhadra Sen Gupta's posthumous book on stories about our originThe author passed away this year due to Covid-19.
02 Nov, 2021, 09.20 AM IST
An epochal point by a meghalayan stalagmiteThe prime minister’s 100-year timeframe is very farsighted indeed by those standards.
19 Jul, 2018, 10.58 PM IST
ASI unearths ‘first-ever’ evidence of chariots in Copper-Bronze ageThe excavation, which began in March, has also unearthed eight burial sites and several artefacts. The three chariots found in burial pits ...
06 Jun, 2018, 12.16 PM IST
Indus civilisation did not develop around flowing river: ScientistsThe Indus or Harappan Civilisation was a Bronze Age society that developed from 5,300 to 3,300 years ago, at about the same time as urban c...
29 Nov, 2017, 06.27 PM IST
All the sines of a new father of trianglesAncient Indian and Chinese mathematicians who also independently arrived at the same conclusions make up the other points of this triangula...
26 Aug, 2017, 10.53 AM IST
Indian wins NASA contest to name Mercury craterThe names were selected by the public outreach team for the spacecraft out of thousands of submissions to an open competition.
14 May, 2015, 03.55 PM IST
- Stuart P Milne, HSBC India CEO : An impatient manager, a thoughtful leader
Unlike bankers who hopped from one marque name to the other for a few dollars more, Milne, 52, has stuck to HSBC for three decades.
27 Jun, 2012, 04.35 AM IST