NEW DELHI – A newly released book, ‘Treasures of the Gupta Empire: A Numismatic History of the Golden Age of India,’ offers a deep dive into the coins minted during the reign of the Gupta dynasty from ...

The World Inequality Lab’s 2024 India study, “Income and Wealth Inequality in India, 1922–2023,” shows that India’s current inequality actually exceeds the inequality of the British colonial period.

Trump-linked crypto assets have fallen far harder than Bitcoin itself, erasing large amounts of paper wealth. The crash shows how personality-driven tokens lure small investors with hype and politics ...

As an American living in Britain in the 1990s, my first exposure to Christmas pudding was something of a shock. I had expected figs or plums, as in the “We Wish You a Merry Christmas” carol, but there ...

LONDON (AP) -- Britain's Royal Mint is celebrating Freddie Mercury with a new coin design that marks 40 years since his iconic 1985 Live Aid concert performance. The coin features an image of the ...

LONDON (AP) -- Britain's Royal Mint is celebrating Freddie Mercury with a new coin design that marks 40 years since his iconic Live Aid concert performance. The coin features an image of the Queen ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Oracle’s enormous borrowing to fund a push into artificial intelligence computing has spooked investors, Sir ...

Nobody does it like Christopher Nolan. For decades now, he’s been delivering cinematic excellence, sending us to the depths of the cosmos, through multiple dream layers, forward and backwards through ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a rare hoard of 1,600-year-old copper coins in Galilee, and the coins may have been stashed there during the last known Jewish revolt against the Romans. Researchers ...

When Hunter Hicks first took a serious interest in collecting rare coins, his parents grew concerned. Their son’s hobby didn’t exactly match that of other preteen boys. “Oh,” they’d ask him, “you’d ...

Histories of Zionism in the interwar period usually focus on Europe, the United States, and the Middle East. In this fascinating account, Imber widens the aperture to include South Asia and South ...

David Olusoga tells the story of the beginnings of the British Empire under Elizabeth I. David Olusoga tells the story of the British Empire from its origins under Elizabeth I to the establishment of ...