A massive disk of intricately carved stone looms over a gallery in Mexico City’s National Museum of Anthropology. The stone has long been an emblem of Mexican identity. Commissioned by the Aztec ruler ...

Obsessed with a treasure city, conquistador Francisco Pizarro captured the Inca emperor Atahualpa. To spare his life, the emperor offered up the largest cache of gold the Spanish ever acquired in the ...

As this tired old earth trudges to the end of another year and the beginnings of a new one, in pagan thought, we shall pass under the dominion of one of ancient Rome’s greater and often unappreciated ...

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The pyramid of the Old Kingdom pharaoh Neferirkare is the tallest in the necropolis of Abusir, where most of the kings of Egypt’s 5th Dynasty were buried. Next to Neferirkare’s monument are the ...

As Tamil Nadu celebrates the harvest festival of Pongal, actor and entrepreneur Shrutika Arjun reflects on the joy of home, heritage and gratitude, sharing what the festival truly means to her and how ...