Some scenes depicted characters in Mongol-style ensembles rather than in mainstream Chinese fashion. One of the men in the murals is seen “wearing a soft hat with four edges, which was the traditional ...
A century ago, physics had its Darwinian moment — a change in perspective that was as consequential for the physical sciences as the theory of evolution by natural selection was for biology ...
Bhubaneswar has organised a talk on ‘Religion, History and Identity: The Making of Heritage-Scape of Sacred Cities’ by Prof. Pralay Kanungo, Leiden University, the Netherlands. Formerly a Profe ...
Richard Janko, a classicist at the University of Michigan, has called the papyrus “the most important new piece of evidence about Greek philosophy and religion to come to light since the ...
The earliest representations we have of the crossbow date from 400 BCE, in China. By 209 BCE the Chinese army had 50,000 crossbowmen who ... Introduced from the East during the Crusades, they were ...