Ancient historians recorded legends about the invention of the first coins, and archaeologists have found some surprising ...

There's old-fashioned cooking and then there's this. Mersu is the oldest known dessert in human history, being discovered on ...

Wedged between the Middle East, south Asia and central Asia, Afghanistan occupies a pivotal place in world geography and world history. Its location has helped draw a diversity of cultures, religions ...

Stal Gallery opened its latest exhibition on 13 April in Muscat, presenting “Gilgamesh: Symbols and Connotations” by ...

The modern Easter egg was created in 1873 by British confectioners J.S. Fry & Sons who produced the first hollow chocolate egg. The design was then perfected by Cadbury in 1875 who developed a special ...

The Enlightenment era aligned the role of dignity with governance. Kant rooted it in merit, moral integrity and universal humanity - the idea later enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human ...

I desired dragons with a profound desire,” fantasy writer J.R.R. Tolkien once said about his childhood imagination, ...

Wealth inequality began over 10,000 years ago, gradually increasing after the advent of agriculture due to population growth ...

Wealth inequality began shaping human societies more than 10,000 years ago, long before the rise of ancient empires or the invention of writing. That's according to a new study that challenges ...

He claims the Pyramid of Giza is where the Tree of Life once stood, whose fruits offered eternal life.

Greek sources portrayed the Achaemenid kings, as indulgent and ruthless—all but Cyrus II. Why was this enemy ruler the only exception?

A provocative new theory suggests that the original Garden of Eden may not have been in Mesopotamia, roughly modern-day Iraq, ...