A new finding has lights on the ancient trade links between Tamilagam and other parts of India and the Roman Empire, ...

For historians, the implications are immediate. They reveal how ancient traders from the subcontinent interacted with the ...

A Tamil trader's name, Cikai Korran, has been found inside ancient Egyptian tombs. This discovery proves that ancient trade ...

A 2,000-year-old Tamil-Brahmi inscription has been discovered in Egypt, providing important evidence of trade between India and the ancient west. The text also has the name of a Tamil trader who ...

Until now, historians knew of Tamil traders reaching Egyptian ports such as Berenike along the Red Sea. However, these newly ...

CHENNAI: Around 2,000 years ago, a Tamil trader who visited the rock-cut tombs of Egyptian pharaohs scratched his name in eight places in five of the six tombs in the Valley of Kings in Egypt, which ...

Alexander the Great and the first President of modern Greece Ioannes Kapodistrias employed the Hellenic civilization for the good of humanity ...

An ancient skyscraper considered the seventh wonder of the world crumbled to ruin centuries ago. Now an ambitious archaeological project aims to reassemble it in 3-D.

Chemical traces of opium found in an ancient Egyptian alabaster vase shows it had a widespread use. Scientists even think King Tut himself may have used the substance. The findings mean opium use ...

An Italian archaeological mission has discovered the remains of a sun temple belonging to an ancient Egyptian king near Cairo, the Egyptian antiquities ministry said. The temple of King Nyuserre is ...

In a quiet corner of New York’s Brooklyn Museum, a luminous alabaster sculpture of an Egyptian queen commands attention. Just 16 inches high, the sculpture is modest in scale but arresting in presence ...