In a stunning turn of events, archaeologists in Frankfurt, Germany, have uncovered a 1,800-year-old silver amulet, believed to be the earliest known evidence of Christianity north of the Alps. This ...

While one bemoans the loss of heritage, there is also some exciting news for those interested in Bengaluru’s local history. A project to digitise inscriptions has found 43 hitherto undocumented ...

Last month, I was at the iconic red-brick building of the Government Museum on Kasturba Road in Bengaluru behind which an exhibition called Inscription Stones of Bangalore was under way. On display ...

An ancient silver amulet unearthed in Frankfurt has been revealed as one of the earliest known testimonies of Christianity in Northern Europe, pushing back the history of Christianity in the region by ...

A four-line ancient Aramaic inscription, possibly inked by Jewish rebels from the Bar Kochba Revolt against the Romans in the 2nd century CE, has been discovered in a cave in the Judean Desert, two ...

Deputy Editor Amanda Borschel-Dan is the host of The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, What Matters Now and Friday Focus podcasts and heads up The Times of Israel's features. After a century of debate ...

AMMAN — In “Royal Correspondence in the Hellenistic Period” (published in 1934), American historian Charles Bradford Welles (1901-1969) gathered a collection of inscriptions in Greek and Latin as a ...

History cannot be written without archaeological and literary sources. From these sources, historians explore and try to understand what happened in the past. Here, we are giving the difference ...

Chennai: The inscriptions at the ancient temple at Thiruvotriyur, where at least five Chola kings besides a Pandya king prayed and all of whom patronised the shrine lavishly, are replete with details ...