Ancient Indian texts include long lists of kings—some reigning for hundreds or even thousands of years. But how accurate are these records? In this Myths Highlights episode, we examine the king lists ...

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The pen might be mightier than a sword but, as Ramesh Chandra Majumdar, one of India’s leading historians of the 20th century, put it in 1970, the spade of the archeologist can be mightier than the ...

In the heart of ancient India, people believed something truly powerful—animals had souls. They weren’t just beings to be used for work, protection, or rituals. They were seen as emotional, ...

A Neanderthal skull on display at the Natural History Museum, London. Many modern humans have inherited around 1 to 2 percent of their DNA from Neanderthals and their close relatives, Denisovans. In ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. In the heart of India’s ancient wisdom lies an orchestration of cosmic principles, ethical ...

The largest ever genome study of South Asian people has discovered a wide range of Neanderthal DNA sequences in modern Indian people. The findings raise the possibility of building a full Neanderthal ...

The British Museum in London has often been accused of cultural imperialism and colonialism, particularly by the U.K.’s ethnic minorities. There is a bitter dispute about many famous pieces acquired ...