The people of Batticaloa had learnt to live with a mix of religions and people. On the Christian side were the Jesuit Fathers ...

From around 200 AD, the shape of London was defined by one single structure; it’s massive city wall. From Tower Hill in the East to Blackfriars Station in the West, the wall stretched for two miles ...

It appears as though this year’s purchase of six diesel buses will be the city’s last. They’re expected to go the all-electric route. In a report by city Transit Services acting director ...

The Ministry of Culture announced the discovery of a grand ancient Greek tomb site near the ancient city of Tenea in Corinth, resembling Macedonian tombs from the Hellenistic era. According to the ...

Bonisoli explained that it’s unusual to find ancient coins from this era in a jar like the ones recently discovered. Another unknown is how much the coins might be worth, although Italian media have ...

The manuscript is illustrated with a “Turkocentric” world map, centralized around the ancient city of Balasagun. Kyrgyzstan stands in the location today. The interesting aspect of this map isn’t that ...

For centuries, historians and linguists have been searching for the cradle of the Indo-Europeans, an ancient people who shaped history and created the world’s largest language family ...

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Even those who know little of ancient Egypt’s mysteries have heard of the infamous ... The team furthermore found two dozen extant texts of the Book Of Two Ways maps inside the burial shaft. Most ...

When the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) was created in 2008 by integrating peripheral municipal councils and villages into a large civic corporation for Bengaluru, the city’s population was ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The temple of Dionysus, Teos. Credit: Carole Raddato / CC BY-SA 2.0 The ruins of Teos (Greek: Τέως), an ancient Greek city on Turkey’s western coast, have long remained untouched by modern ...