Comparison of Avestan and Vedic terminology

Zulm, an Arabic word in origin, refers to something broader, deeper and more powerful than injustice. It can be used to mean tyranny, abuse, iniquity, cruelty, oppression or unfairness.

A Brief Survey of Sanskrit Word-Formation Processes

The Harbin Opera House is captured at night and in the snow in these photos by Andres Gallardo, showing the building's serpentine forms and poetic stillness.

As in the early Middle Ages, Western Civilization finds its future threatened once again.

These GIFs reconstruct 7 ancient ruins around the world, including the Parthenon, Luxor Temple, the Temple of Jupiter and the Pyramid of the Sun.

When a photographer is able to successfully pinpoint the crest of a social movement, the resulting pictures can become an important historical document.

Newgrange passage tomb is one of the earliest and greatest feats of solar alignment, built 1,000 years before Stonehenge. Viewers can see it by lottery only.

Those who talk of selling their souls might really believe it, but they inherited the language from centuries of Western cultural and religious tradition. Selling one’s soul is a common metaphor for living a carnal life, or getting into bed with shady characters for worldly success.

First of all, the title is part of a quotation from Manilus, one of the most respected astrologers of his time. This is a rather different kind of article.  It's a short introductory piece on the nature, history and reputation of what must be the best-known comet The long history of this object and the events…

Stephen Hawking's last paper is very interesting, but it's not going to prove the existence of the multiverses

It followed from the special theory of relativity that mass and energy are both but different manifestations of the same thing — a somewhat unfamiliar conception for the average mind.