History has long celebrated its ancient world pioneers, yet many great deeds of overlooked figures have faded with their ...

Ancient Persians developed the first ice-storage technology with yakhchals, enabling year-round ice storage. This technology ...

From beehive-shaped ice pits in Iran to 17th-century European kitchens, ice cream’s evolution reveals how science, sugar, and ...

The latest season of this ‘Iranian Spring’ began on 28 December 2025, when highly influential merchants of Tehran’s Grand ...

BC. The Persian Achaemenid Empire, established half a century earlier under Cyrus the Great, stretched from Northern India to ...

The life of Byzantine Emperor Heraclius (610–641), his military triumphs, reforms, and the establishment of Greek as the official language.

Marc Olsen was just 18 when he started winning money at backgammon. Sitting at his computer in Copenhagen in 2004, he would ...

The history of ice-cream is rich, stretching from ancient Persia's yakhchal ice storage methods to innovative recipes from Italy and France in the 17th century. The evolution of ice-cream involves ...

A bumpy snailfish, Andean mouse opossum and ancient sea cow were just some of the many species described in 2025.