Bookmark stories for easy access on any device or the Swarajya app. Even competing readings of the 'Pashupati seal' keep circling back to a yogic figure with striking continuities to later Shiva ...

The Halil River flows through fertile valleys beneath the Zagros Mountains of Iran. In 2001, devastating flash floods along the Halil River exposed a Bronze Age necropolis, a remnant of the Jiroft ...

Historian Audrey Truschke has triggered a fresh debate over the famous Pashupati seal of the Indus Valley Civilisation after questioning claims that the figure depicted on it represents an early form ...

Early writing is a tale of two scripts. Egyptian hieroglyphs and Mesopotamian cuneiform both emerged independently about 5300 years ago. The political powers of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia ...

The Indus Valley civilization was one of the most advanced in the world for over 500 years. More than 1000 settlements sprawled across 250,000 square miles of what is now Pakistan and northwest India ...

The sun is shining, the coffee is brewed, and her pajamas are still on at 10 a.m. That means Amy Grant is content. On New Year’s Eve day, before preparing for a massive family gathering to celebrate ...

An ancient Iranian mystery has finally been solved, according to a French archaeologist who reports successfully cracking the code to an enigmatic, undeciphered writing system. Known as Linear Elamite ...

While a modern-day war has focused the world's attention on Iran, for French archaeologist François Desset it was a millennia-old mystery that drew him to the country. His quest: to decipher the 4,000 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An Archaemenian clay tablet written in the Elamite scripts is shown at Iran's National Museum in Tehran, May 1, 2004. His quest: ...

The original King Taco in Cypress Park was unanimously designated a Historic-Cultural Monument by the Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday. Founded in 1974 by Raul and Maria Martinez, the site is ...

Linguistics experts have been trying to decipher and translate an enigmatic type of ancient language known as Linear Elamite for more than 100 years. This writing system was used by people who lived ...