Why do we care so much about flags? Why do ordinary, common-sense people put them up, and why do politically correct councils tear them down? Why does anyone mind at all? They are only rectangles of ...

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IN the early Bronze Age, a piece of bread was buried beneath the threshold of a newly built house in what is today central Turkiye. Now, over 5,000 years later, archaeo­logists have unearthed it, and ...

ESKISEHIR, Turkey – In the early Bronze Age, a piece of bread was buried beneath the threshold of a newly built house in what is today central Turkey. Now, more than 5,000 years later, archaeologists ...

Two volumes of 2,300-year-old silk books – the earliest known in China – arrived in Beijing from the United States in the early hours of Sunday, marking the end of their 79-year journey abroad. The ...

Heritage enthusiast Mbuso Khoza has slammed the modern day practice of ilobolo, describing it as a scam invented by Sir Theophilus Shepstone, a British South African colonial administrator, as a way ...

For his Fall-Winter 2025 show at Paris Fashion Week, Dutch designer Duran Lantink continued to break the mold with his offbeat designs. Set in an office space that wouldn’t look out of place in the ...

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have unearthed rare carvings on an ancient Mayan ball court depicting a powerful snake-themed dynasty. Excavators have uncovered three stucco reliefs that depict scenes of the Kaanu’l ...

A project which aims to effectively reintroduce a species of cattle that was wiped out four centuries ago plans to introduce a herd in the Highlands. Trees for Life hopes 15 large wild cattle named ...

In Malta, Admiralty dockyards have played a central, but not invariably acknowledged, role in the industrial, economic, military, educational and, not least, political evolution of the islands. From ...

The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, has acquired Standing Figure Holding a Were-Jaguar Baby (around 900BC-300BC), a jade statuette at the centre of Olmec civilisation studies since the ...