Order of the Madras High Court dated 07/06/2021 in the matter of Suo Motu Vs Archaeological Survey of India & Others regarding safeguarding of archaeological monuments in Tamil Nadu. The Madras High Court, June 7, 2021 in a slew of measures directed the concerned authorities to establish Mamallapuram World Heritage …
Barely a month goes by without a painting by an Australian aboriginal artist selling for a record price. But the beauty of those paintings that frequently grace Australia's art galleries and corporate board rooms mask the often complex stories they tell. The dots and lines that represent sand hills and …
problem drug: Pediatric ritalin use may affect developing brain in children, says a new study. Use of the attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder drug may cause long-term changes in the brain, suggests a study on very young rats by researchers from the Weill Cornell Medical College in New York. Ritalin
A fragment of an exploding harpoon used by whalers in the 1800s has been found in a whale caught off Alaska, suggesting that the animal could be nearly 130 years old. The find has given researchers a rare insight into the precise age of the whale, as till now a …
Columbus may not have been the first to discover the Americas. Scientists have found evidence that the Polynesians landed in the Americas probably a century ahead of Columbus. dna studies of some ancient chicken bones excavated from the El Arenal site in central Chile suggest that the Polynesians had actually …
Car dependency may now have become a serious problem, but in 1882, when the German car maker Karl Benz took out his rudimentary internal combustion engine for a test drive in the streets of Stuttgart, he was arrested. The French count Albert de Dion fared no better. When he tried …
A large number of ancient indigenous artefacts were unearthed on May 17 in Australia. They were found at a construction site for the Australian defence headquarters at Bungendore in southern New South Wales. Around 20,000 tools of about 5,000 years old were recovered while the foundations of a hotel, which …
The Kathmandu reaches of the Bagmati River are widely characterised as severely degraded. This article explores the rhetorical life and death of the concept of a 'Bagmati civilisation': a particular configuration of history, cultural identity and river ecology espoused by a prominent Nepali river restorationist. Following the 2001 imposition of …
R K Bhattacharya Former director, Anthropological Survey of India, and member of the Expert Committee appointed by the Calcutta High Court. In the report submitted to the court in 2003, he says: "
every summer, pollens fly past Lake Van in Turkey. Pollens scattered in the air by various means get deposited on the lake's bed. Then a layer of mud covers it. This phenomenon repeats itself every year. An inch-thick layer of lime
Cambridge University has published the diaries of Emma Wedgewood Darwin, the wife of eminent evolutionist Charles Darwin. The diaries documenting Darwins' six decades of family life add to an online collection of Darwin's works, journals, field notes and images. Emma's notes add a different aspect of Darwin's life. "Across decades …
neanderthal, a species of the Homo genus, disappeared from Earth about 35,000 years ago. Homo sapiens who had the same ancestors as them, continued to live on. The reason behind their sudden disappearance has intrigued scientists for a long time. Anthropologists have propounded three theories explaining their disappearance. One group …
Australian aboriginal leaders have sued London's Natural History Museum (nhm) for its decision to carry out dna tests on bones, teeth and skulls taken from the island's Aboriginals. The museum has agreed to return the 19th century specimens to Australia after tests are complete. Museum authorities argue that the tests …
Researchers are to carry out the first detailed survey of the Great Wall of China to establish just how long the ancient barricade is, the Chinese news agency Xinhua has reported. Along with checking its dimensions the four-year study, which starts in May, will map the wall's exact route. The …
As the Alborz Dam in the northern Iranian province of Mazandaran nears completion, Iranian cultural heritage experts have raised concerns regarding its possible consequences on the historic Lafurak cemetery. Located near Savadkooh in Mazandaran, Lafurak is a cemetery dating back to the Iron Age. Archaeologists fear that the dam would …
In 1999 an American historian, John Hunwick, came upon a cache of old documents in a family library in Timbuktu, Mali. The discovery was seminal. It revealed that Africa had a sophisticated literary culture. This went against the grain of historical writing then: Africa's history was thought of as all …
