Many of our practices and behaviours go back four thousand years. For example, the Danish archaeologists found evidence that Failakawis dove for pearls 4000 years ago, but the elementary history books ...

The Times Opinion columnist discusses religion and belief — at this moment in our politics, and in our lives more generally.

In this rich, forest-savannah belt that we now call the Middle Belt, the laws of survival were simple and brutal: to endure, ...

Israel has always been a project promoted by Imperialist powers, and this has profound implications for the history of ...

Nikhil Murthy's Syphilisation is a game that makes you think about the generic themes of the 4X genre, and how it goes about it further nuances the experience.

A belief that Jesus travelled to India and adopted Buddhist teachings and methods has been around since at least the 19th Century when scholars attempted to explain the similarities between Christiani ...

In the display cases of the Egyptian Museum of Berlin lies a fragile piece of papyrus that speaks not of turbulent romances ...

Reading like the lyrics to a popular song or poem from modern times, two ancient Greek inscriptions in the form of rhyming poetry have prompted new insights into the way the language was spoken in ...