The sprawling new Noida campus of ASI’s storied Institute of Archaeology was supposed to be a monument to new India. Seven years on, there's barely anyone to use it.

by Nelly P. Abboud On April 1, 2026, in the context of Israel’s illegal invasion of Lebanon and criminal targeting of the country’s civilian populations and heritage sites, the UNESCO c…

CHENNAI: In a discovery that reinforces the footprint of ancient Tamil civilisation across the globe, around 30 inscriptions, the majority of them in Tamil Brah

cover art and post: Katherine Blouin How are Antiquity scholars and organizations responding to Israel’s campaign of annihilation of Palestine’s past, present and future? What do archaeologists and…

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This December, Kanav and Disha will be traveling to India to live in an Adivasi (original inhabitants of South Asia) community in Jharkhand. We’ll be staying with Jacinta Kerketta, our friend, teacher...

The author reflects on their own experiences in the industry, the narratives they came across and how caste does in fact shape the process of game development.

Tech companies are marketing AI-based note-taking software to therapists as a new time-saving tool. But by signing up, providers may be unknowingly offering patients’ sensitive health information as d...

For the better part of a year, we've watched (and reported) in horror as more and more stories emerge about AI chatbots leading people to self-harm, delusions, hospitalization, arrest, and suicide. As the loved ones of the people impacted by these dangerous bots rally for change to prevent such harm from happening to anyone else, the companies that run these AIs have been slow to implement safeguards — and OpenAI, whose ChatGPT has been repeatedly implicated in what experts are now calling "AI psychosis," has until recently done little more than offer copy-pasted promises that the company is "working on […]

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My name is Eslam Mohammad, I’m 24 years old, and I’m from Gaza.  Over the past year, I’ve lived through unimaginable horror.  I lost my home, my work as a photographer and artist, my friends, and the ...

On July 31, 2025, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) uncovered partial human remains from a site near the Nethravathi river in Dharmasthala. This location was

Please fill out the form below to add your name to this open letter calling on the European Association of Archaeologists to respond to ICOMOS Palestine's appeal to cultural heritage organisations to ...

Velliamma stood under the scorching sun, inside a trench at the Keeladi excavation site in Madurai. She carefully brushed away centuries of dust from the ancien

Home Office red tape strands dozens of Palestinian scholarship winners in war zone

Across India, tribal regions are increasingly being opened up to exploitation in the name of tourism.

Archaeological excavations in Tamil Nadu have revealed significant evidence of ancient civilisations, including the Sangam Era and Iron Age. Key sites like Keeladi, Sivagalai, and Adichanallur have be...