Touch a flower on your period and it will wither away, women are told. Yet, as symbols of fertility, flowers have become a ...

Indologist Lalit Mishra rediscovers Ayodhya's ancient flag from a Mewar painting, confirmed in Valmiki Ramayana. The flag, ...

Flowers, often part of Minoan and Egyptian art, were symbols of life, the afterlife, and rebirth, according to a study of ...

Hindu mythology offers a mystical explanation for the Saraswati River's disappearance. Ancient texts recount how Rishi Vyasa, ...

Ancient Persians believed the sky was blue because it reflected a massive sapphire beneath the Earth, giving the stone cosmic symbolism. Kings, priests, and rulers wore sapphires to signal wisdom, ...

The ancient Assyrian capital of Nimrud was once considered one of the most important archaeological finds in the world.