Study: Electricity Produced 2,000 Years Ago
There is a cylinder made of copper inside a 13-15cm-long ceramic pot. One can find an iron rod inserted into that cylinder. Archaeologists discovered such a battery near the ruins […]
Extinct Human Relative Was First To Use Weapons
Paranthropus boisei, a close relative of modern human ancestors, used to roam across Africa about 2.5 to 1.15 million years ago. They can be considered an evolutionary cousin of Homo […]
The New Saviour Of Africa
The popularity of Ibrahim Traoré (born March 14, 1988), the charismatic leader of Burkina Faso, is growing enviably not only in his own country, but also in neighbouring countries. Even […]
Policing The Fall Of Empire
British Colonialism, The Boomerang Effect & A Flamboyant PolicemanBy Stuart Logie “It should never be forgotten that colonisation had a considerable boomerang effect on the mechanisms of power in the […]
Russia Releases Super-Secret KGB Files, Shakes US
Russia recently handed over a classified file on the assassination of former American President John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963) to the US. Interestingly, the over […]
US May Collapse Like Soviet Union
He has reduced the financial aid to various universities, triggered tariff wars with different countries, started maintaining a distance with European friends and threatened to carry out military operations in […]
Between State & People
By Yogendra Yadav When was the last time we had a book of such breadth and depth on Indian politics? I asked myself this question as I finished reading Partha […]
Cleopatra-Era Port Discovered
The death of Cleopatra VII, the last ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt who passed away on August 10/12, BCE 30, still remains a mystery. While some scholars hypothesise […]
On Purity Of Blood
In Jane Austen‘s 1814 novel Mansfield Park, Edmund Bertram tied the nuptial knot with Fanny Price. They were cousins who grew up together. Consanguineous marriage is common, as well as […]
Boundless Ocean Of Politics 