MAZAR-I-SHARIF (Pajhwok): Residents of northern Balkh province, along with local archaeologists, are urging the government to ...

Based on Xuanzang’s account, Nalanda Mahavihara had an observatory tower, which could have been used to track the movement of ...

The profession of copper-smith is an ancient industry of Afghanistan which once shun well but currently it faced a complete stagnation within the country due to some reasons. Abdul Manan, a ...

Such a task was too great for a people who were still largely tribal, resembling in their composition rather the clans of the highlands of Scotland in ancient ... to Ghazni and Balkh in the ...

And now it carries a handsome cash prize: $1 million for anyone who can decipher the script of the ancient Indus Valley civilization. Relatively little is known about the creators of the script ...

Ancient Egyptian person: Well it’s not! We need to know exactly when the river will flood, so that we plant our crops at the right time. That way, we can take advantage of all the nutrients left ...

The capacity for subjective experience, or sentience, is a defining feature of consciousness. An organism is considered sentient if “there is something it is like to be that organism.” 1 In ...

New discoveries by a UCF researcher and her team at the ancient Mesopotamian site of Kurd Qaburstan, including clay tablets with ancient cuneiform writing, a game board and large structural ...

Here’s how it works. An ancient and enigmatic stone circle in the Middle East may not be a prehistoric astronomical observatory after all, according to a new study of satellite images.

Piece by piece, experts carefully transported the Phoenician vessel to dry land, where it will be studied and preserved Sarah Kuta Daily Correspondent Archaeologists have raised a 2,600-year-old ...