The Amri-Nal culture — one of the oldest in Pakistan. The ancient cities of Mohen Jo Daro and Harappa in Pakistan are as famous as the cities of Egypt and Mesopotamia. In fact, the Indus Valley Civilization was the largest of the four ancient civilizations, which included Mesopotamia, Egypt and…

Ancient astronomical sites are spread across the earth, and have been fascinating people for millennia. What is less known is that the Americas also have one. It is called the Chankillo Archaeoastronomical Complex and dates from between 500–200 BC. …

Series: Making the Digital System Environment Friendly Twenty years ago, when I started working in environmental conservation and climate change most people looked at me quizzically when I told them what I did for a living. …

The Roman Empire was vast and extensive, covering almost all of Europe. Britain also came under its rule for 400 years. First Julius Caesar visited in 55 BC, but he did not stay. Eventually, in 43 AD permanent conquest of the British Isles began and Britain became a Roman province…

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has been circling the Sun and taking images of it, and while it goes on with its regular job, it did something else too. It has taken its first visible light images of the surface of Venus from space. According to NASA, “in two recent flybys…

In the first episode of the TV show Vikings, a bunch of Vikings set out for that island across the North Sea, which we know as England. They landed on a smaller island called Lindisfarne that had a monastery, which they destroyed. That part of the show was true. The…

In November 2018, amateur astronomer Dan Caselden was running an automated search of NASA space telescope images on his computer, for the Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project, when he found something weird. About 50-light-years away from Earth, in a field imaged by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, this object was…

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! The Sun is watching you! This image was taken by NASA’s Solar Dynamic Observatory in October 2014. The image blends two sets of extreme ultraviolet wavelengths. The active regions of the Sun appear brighter. Let’s talk about Halloween.Our whole existence, in fact everything alive on this planet is…