The ancient universities of India were intellectual powerhouses that attracted scholars from distant lands interested in studying mathematics and astronomy as well as philosophy and medicine.

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According to Live Science, the discovery sheds new light on the ancient Egyptian celebration of Wepet ... scented oils rather than drinks. "Ask the gods Montu and Amun-Re to grant Amenhotep ...

Behind the shadows, as Islamists work their way to the top of every state institution in the Middle East's largest country, Egyptian nonbelievers ... in the name of God? "An Islamist Egypt ...

And now that you know the origins of the word gumbo, here’s a little something else to numb the mind: ancient Egyptians were eating gumbo thousands of years before the founding of New Orleans ...

Waves of human migration across Europe during the first millennium AD have been revealed using a more precise method of analysing ancestry with ancient DNA, in research co-led by a UCL and Francis ...