UMUAHIA—The Ndigbo Progressive Traditional Rulers have faulted the ban on parallel groups by the Abia State Council of Traditional Rulers, insisting that the council lacks the power to take such ...

By Hari Kumar Anupreeta Das and Pragati K.B. Reporting from New Delhi A hard-line Hindu group’s call for the removal of the tomb of a 17th-century Mughal ruler has ignited tensions with Muslims ...

Similar clashes occurred in June 2023 in Maharashtra’s Kolhapur after social media posts allegedly glorified the Mughal ruler. Aurangzeb, the 17th-century Mughal emperor, remains a polarising figure.

A group of archaeologists has successfully deciphered a4,000-year-old collection of cuneiform tablets that reveal ominous warnings, including one that prophesies, “a king will die.” According to a ...

The city was earlier called Aurangabad, after the Mughal ruler. Aurangzeb is a loathed figure among India’s Hindu nationalists, who accuse him of persecuting Hindus during his rule in the 17th ...

The Girsu Project researchers found more than 200 tablets and some 50 cylinder seal impressions of Akkadian administrators in Girsu. These clay records are incredibly detailed, showing fierce ...

The VHP denied accusations of engaging in any violence. It wants the tomb to be replaced with a memorial for rulers from the local Maratha community, its general secretary, Milind Parande ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Afghan women wait to receive food rations distributed by a humanitarian aid group, in Kabul, Afghanistan ...

Their rivalry became a race to achieve what had seemed an impossible feat: the decipherment of the Akkadian language and the ancient ... Some of the text described the exotic animals that Assyrian ...

First and foremost, the device can indeed serve as a straight-edge ruler, for measuring, drawing or cutting straight lines. The markings on the beveled edges of its two arms go up to 100 mm on one ...