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Washington, March 5 (ANI): Genealogical tourism is redefining leisure travel market, says a University of Illinois travel expert.
U. of I. recreation, sport and tourism professor Carla Santos explains: “Genealogical tourism provides an irreplaceable dimension of material reality that’’s missing from our postmodern society.”
According to co-author and U. of I. graduate student Grace Yan, going back [...]

Washington, September 9 (ANI): Italian archaeologists have unearthed a 1st century A.D. colossal statue of Apollo, the Greek god of the sun, light, music and poetry, from white calcified cliffs in southwestern Turkey.

Colossal statues were very popular in antiquity, as evidenced by the lost [...]

New Delhi, Aug 19 (ANI): Defence Minister AK Antony will begin a three-day official visit to Maldives from tomorrow.

He will be leading a high-level delegation comprising Defence Secretary Pradeep Kumar, DG Armed Forces Medical Services Lt Gen NK Parmar, DG Coast Guard Vice Admiral Anil Chopra [...]

Prague (Czech Republic), August 13 (ANI): Archaeologists have uncovered a unique 1000-year-old mark engraved into an oak tree near Celakovice in Prague, Czech Republic, which is probably the oldest preserved sign of this kind in the world.

According to a report in the Prague Monitor, the real meaning of [...]

Washington, July 10 (ANI): A new theory by a University of Melbourne physicist has said that Galileo knew he had discovered a new planet, that we now know as Neptune, in the year 1613, 234 years before its official discovery date.

Professor David Jamieson, Head of the School of Physics, has put the theory forward.

He is [...]

Tehran, July 6 (ANI): The second phase of archeological excavations in the Iranian port city of Siraf has yielded new evidence that confirms the antiquity of the Persian Gulf title.

According to a report in Press TV, [...]

Dimapur, July 2 (ANI): In a new research, scientists have chronologically dated five ancestral settlement sites within Nagaland as belonging to the 7th century AD.

According to a report in The Morung Express, based on the study of oral tradition and folklore [...]

Chandauli (UP), May 20 (ANI): Uttar Pradesh police had recovered at least 19 antique idols of Hindu gods, allegedly being smuggled out of the country and arrest three people.

Acting on a tip off, police laid a trap in Chandauli district and trapped the antique smugglers who tried to evade the police at a checkpoint.

“Three persons [...]

Forte dei Marmi – At the turn of the century, the Tuscan coastal town of Forte dei Marmi became hugely popular with artists, aristocrats and intellectuals from all over Europe.
Nowadays, the “beautiful people” still flock here to spend their holidays among the pine trees. In downtown Forte dei Marmi, the fashionable Café Versilia on [...]

Washington, April 7 (ANI): Archaeologists have found five structures, each in the shape of an enormous “foot”, in the Jordan Valley in the Middle East, which testify to the biblical concept of ownership of the land with the foot.

According to archaeologist Professor Adam Zertal of the University of Haifa, who headed the excavating team that [...]

Bacchus lovers in Gurgaon are having a gala time these days but the bad news is that it is going to last just one more day. In a bid to clear stocks before March 31, a majority of liquor vend owners in this satellite town, as elsewhere in Haryana, have slashed rates of various Indian [...]

Washington, April 1 (ANI): Researchers, using CT imaging to study a priceless bust of Nefertiti, have uncovered a delicately carved face in the limestone inner core and gained new insights into methods used to create the ancient masterpiece and information pertinent to its conservation.

“We acquired a lot of information on how the bust was manufactured [...]

New Delhi, March 28 (ANI): Archaeologists have come across new proof which determines that China is the cradle of rice cultivation.

For the research, Dorian Fuller from the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, Zheng Yunfei from Zhejiang Provincial Institute of Antiquity and Archaeology and a few other Chinese archaeologists, investigated rice remains at the Neolithic [...]

London, Feb 28 (ANI): One of Galileo Galilei’s fingers, which is the only remaining part of the 17th century astronomer’s body, is to go on display in Italy.

According to a report in the Telegraph, the finger, which is the middle digit from Galileo’s right hand, is mounted on a marble [...]

Washington, Jan 7 (ANI): Fascinated by gladiators? Well, then here’s your chance to get close and personal with the Roman fighters, for they are soon going to return to Rome’’s Colosseum to display their antics, local authorities have announced.

The gladiators will return to the country’s most famous fight arena almost 2,000 years after their [...]