ANCIENT TREASURES

Puri's Jagannath temple will open Ratna Bhandar on July 14. SJTA is preparing with a snake charmer, medical team, and an SOP pending government approval. Gold retrieved in 1985; last inventory in 1978. Servitors curious about valuables; recent snake...

"The digital exhibition highlights the history of millets from ancient grains to modern-day superfoods, as well as their nutritional benefits, contribution to global climate resilience, and potential to address global food security challenges," a re...

A 67-year-old treasure hunter made a remarkable discovery near Much Wenlock in Shropshire, unearthing England's largest-ever gold nugget weighing 64.8 grams, named 'Hiro’s Nugget' after his wife. Despite arriving late and facing technical issues, Br...

Unlike its Western counterparts, burdened by rigid sentence structures and linear grammar, Sanskrit thrives on flexibility. Its constellation of word-order possibilities and nuanced system for capturing meaning aligns perfectly with the dynamic natu...

​The building, which dates to between the second half of the 2nd century BC and the end of the 1st century BC, is "an authentic treasure", Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano said in a statement.

Ancient Crimean gold treasures returned to Kyiv Monday after being stuck in a Dutch museum for nine years, where they were on show when Russia seized the Black Sea peninsula in 2014.

Not many are aware that the world’s first winery existed in Armenia 6,000 years back and in present-day Armenia it has been revived leading to a craze for tastier home-grown wine even as the locally produced Brandy remains popular in the region and ...

A piece of rock with mysterious markings that lay largely unstudied for 4,000 years is now being hailed as a "treasure map" for archaeologists, who are using it to hunt for ancient sites around north-western France. But the team are only just beginn...

The British Museum has launched a public hotline to help locate around 2,000 missing artefacts, mainly ancient Greek and Roman gems and jewellery. They recently dismissed a staff member over stolen, missing, or damaged items, which led to the direct...

Disney has unveiled its sixth ship in its cruise line, the Disney Treasure. The theme-park based liner is sure to add delight to families booking a ride on it.

The Metropolitan Museum's newest exhibition, "Tree & Serpent: Early Buddhist Art in India, 200 B.C.E.-400 C.E.," features over 50 sculptures from India that took over a decade to gather on loan, making it the first exhibit of its kind in a United St...

The Codex Sassoon is set to go on the block at Sotheby's in New York in May.

Assyrian royal inscriptions often stress the violent side of empire.

The treasured manuscript "is in fact a 20th-century forgery."

In Spain, suffering its worst drought in decades, archaeologists have been delighted by the emergence of a prehistoric stone circle dubbed the "Spanish Stonehenge" that is usually covered by the waters of a dam.

Despite efforts to locate the treasure with radar equipment, the actor came up empty handed.

Chinese archaeologists have discovered a treasure trove at the Sanxingdui Ruins site in Sichuan Province. The trove contains gold, bronze, and jade artefacts from the ancient Chinese kingdom.

At the time of the cataclysm, Pompeii had a population of about 12,000.

Archaeologists have hit the jackpot as they unearth a buried treasure of Egyptian artefacts, including idols, mummified coffins, manuscripts, etc.