Indus Valley east theory challenged

G.S. MUDUR  Mohenjodaro New Delhi, April 5: A study of hundreds of ancient Indus Valley civilisation sites has revealed previously unsusp...

UM digs find 10,000-year-old Native oasis

Elaine Hale, Yellowstone National Park archaeologist, helps Montana-Yellowstone Archaeological Project students Andrew Bowen of Kent State...

Hundreds of rare Roman pots discovered by accident off Italy's coast by British research ship

A British underwater research team has discovered hundreds of rare Roman pots by accident, while trawling the wreckages of ships on the sea...

Parthenon yields clues to quake-proof design

ATHENS: Japanese scientists will next month look into seismic resistance secrets in the design of the 2,500-year-old Parthenon which has wit...

MEENAKSHI TEMPLE

Sri Meenakshi Temple (built 1623-59 onward) Sri Meenakshi is Hindu temple constructed in the early 17th century for Shiva and his wife, Parv...

THE PYRAMID OF MOUNT TAYGETUS

Mt.Taygetos is the highest peak in southern Greece with 2.407m. Old legend tell that it was the 1st pyramid ever built on earth. There is a ...

Neanderthals wouldn't have eaten their sprouts either

Visitors at the Museum for Prehistory in Eyzies-de-Tayac look at a reconstruction of a Neanderthal man. Spanish researchers say they have fo...

The rat that's the size of a cat: BBC team discovers 40 new species in 'lost world'

No fear: The rat is not afraid of humans, which could make it vulnerable A bizarre jungle spider camouflaged as lichen Rats as big as cats, ...

Midgard

Midgard is a realm in Norse mythology. Pictured as placed somewhere in the middle of Yggdrasil, Midgard is surrounded by a world of water, o...

Real Middle Earth

Middle-earth. J.R.R. Tolkien’s invented mythology centred on an epic story of the struggle between Good and Evil, but it also included an el...

The Battle of Ragnarok

Ragnarok, sometimes called the Twilight of the Gods, is the final cataclysm that will destroy this world and the gods. After three terrible ...

The World Tree Myth

According to the Norse poem The Lay of Grimnir, “Of all trees, Yggdrasil is the best.” Yggdrasil is a huge ash tree that stands at the cente...

Ahura Mazda and Ahriman

When it was time for the twins to be born, Zurvan promised that his first-born should rule the world. Ahura Mazda, who was gifted with fores...