Learn about the earliest sport in the world and how it evolved from a survival skill into a popular form of competition over ...

Around 4,000 years ago, one of the world's oldest civilizations emerged: The Indus Valley Civilization, flourishing in what ...

Researchers have uncovered the world’s oldest known cave art—a 67,800-year-old hand stencil in Indonesia. The unusual, ...

Iran’s history goes back over 4,000 years to ancient Persia, one of the oldest civilizations on Earth. But what many people ...

A new institution in Tashkent opens as a monument to Central Asia’s role in the history of human knowledge. For centuries, ...

The Antikythera computer captured the ancient Greek passion for mathematics, and especially geometry, and science.

The ancient world was replete with a myriad of fascinating civilizations, many of which are no longer remembered.

In this episode, we explore the rise of the Harappan Civilisation and the emergence of Iron Age Kingdoms around 600 BCE.

As the US- and Israeli-led war in Iran continues into its second week, Arvand Khosravi, an Iranian American born in Paris, ...

Today, there are over 100 distinct beer varieties, from pilsners and bocks, to porters, stouts, and IPAs. The oldest evidence ...

As Clement Attlee, British Labour prime minister from 1945-1951 and father of the British social security system long ago ...