On a late-summer day in 1856, a letter carrier stepped from a mail coach in front of a three-story townhouse in Mayfair, in ...

The Great Seal of the Realm is the chief seal of the Crown, used to show the monarch's approval of important State documents. In today's constitutional monarchy, the Sovereign acts on the advice of ...

He attributed the crisis to the influx of expired cylinders and substandard gas kits, which entered the market due to lapses by SON and NCS personnel at the country’s ports and borders.

This unique degree programme offers training in an unparalleled range of ancient languages and their associated history, culture and textual traditions. Students study Hebrew and either Greek or Latin ...

In Mesopotamian culture, amber was considered an exotic and highly valued material. Ancient cuneiform texts describe its purported therapeutic benefits and its use in religious contexts, associating ...

Today, more than a dozen stalls specialising in stamps still line the alley, but the know-how involved in this ancient craft is fading, with only a few of the owners still making stone seals by hand.

A local government in India is offering a $1 million prize to the first person who cracks the code of an ancient script found ... it mostly appears on stone seals used for trade or commerce.

The world's largest iceberg is on a collision course with a remote British island, potentially putting penguins and seals in danger. The iceberg is spinning northwards from Antarctica towards ...

But the citrus genus has a surprising history, popping up everywhere from ancient Rome and the Renaissance to naval exploration and Casanova's famed romantic trysts. The history of citrus dates ...