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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Arab Americans celebrate their history and culture because it gives us immense joy and cradles us during exceedingly horrific ...

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

The tradition of coloring eggs to celebrate Easter can be traced to the 13th-century Britain, and perhaps even earlier, to ...

This Pagan tradition was adopted first adopted by early Christians in Mesopotamia (now modern day Iraq), before spreading into Europe from east to west, by turns through the Orthodoxm Catholic and ...

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

What is the origin of Easter eggs? Do they derive from authentic Christian traditions, or do they come from ancient pagan practices?

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 ...