Explore the story of a silver shaft-hole axe from the Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex (also known as the Oxus Civilization). We dive into its iconography, Bronze Age materials, casting ...

Bactria was one of the more important historic regions of the ancient and classical world. A central point of more than one defining political event, Bactria experienced thousands of years of ...

The city of Rome has long been nicknamed the eternal city because of its association with the Roman Catholic Church and the belief among ancient Roman pagans that the city would last forever - ...

NEW DELHI: In a groundbreaking discovery, Indian and Kashmiri scientists have successfully reconstructed ancient DNA from human burials at Burzahom — one of South Asia’s earliest Neolithic sites near ...

SRINAGAR: In a groundbreaking study published in Nature, scientists have, for the first time, extracted and decoded ancient DNA from human remains found in the Kashmir Valley, revealing a genetic ...

Pune: Nearly a decade after a Deccan College team dug beneath a village schoolyard in Pachamta in Rajasthan, their findings have rewritten what was known about early political life in Chalcolithic ...

Ukraine and Russia are in the news for the wrong reasons—involved in a wasteful war, provoked by attempts to expand NATO borders. Ukraine has been made a pawn in the hands of western powers, the fate ...

A 4,000-year-old tomb of a teenager unearthed in Iran, filled with gold jewelry and mysterious seals, is rewriting what we know about Bronze Age power and trade. The burial highlights an unusual ...

At Tepe Chalow in northeastern Iran, archaeologists have documented an ornate Bronze Age tomb belonging to a teenage girl. The grave includes jewelry, carved stone containers, and multiple seals that ...

"As the name suggests, these materials were previously thought to be confined primarily to the regions of Margiana (modern Turkmenistan) and Bactria (northern Afghanistan and Uzbekistan). However, ...