Watch: Ancient Egyptian mummy coffin is opened for the first time in 2,500 years

Scroll Staff

· Oct 06, 2020 · 03:36 pm

Delhi has faced a shortage of burial space since the British Raj. Covid-19 is making it worse

Kelsey J Utne, Nursing Clio

· Oct 05, 2020 · 01:30 pm

‘The Shadow King’: The Booker shortlisted novel choreographs women’s footprints on the battlefield

Aditi Sriram

· Oct 04, 2020 · 08:30 am

Even during a plague in 1700s, religious institutions helped and hindered public health officials

Hannah Marcus, The Conversation

· Oct 01, 2020 · 11:30 pm

What evolved faster – human brain or human society?

Nick Longrich, The Conversation

· Sep 27, 2020 · 09:30 pm

Weekend Quiz: Who composed the Sufi romantic story ‘Chandayana’?

The Heritage Lab

· Sep 26, 2020 · 11:30 am

Weekend Quiz: By which treaty did Gulab Singh became the first Dogra King of Jammu and Kashmir?

The Heritage Lab

· Sep 19, 2020 · 11:30 am

South Asian history is hidden around Berkeley. Two Indian Americans are bringing it into the light

Vandana Menon

· Sep 18, 2020 · 06:30 pm

Gyan Chaupar to Snakes and Ladders: How a game about a karmic journey became a plaything for kids

Souvik Mukherjee

· Sep 15, 2020 · 09:30 pm

Discovery of 200,000-year-old beds throws light on the complex behaviour of ancient humans

Irene Esteban, The Conversation Paloma de la Peña Alonso, The Conversation

· Sep 13, 2020 · 09:30 pm

Weekend Quiz: Who deciphered the Kharosthi script?

The Heritage Lab

· Sep 13, 2020 · 11:30 am

With face to face interviews ruled out during the pandemic, how are oral historians coping?

Aanchal Malhotra

· Sep 13, 2020 · 08:30 am

Who was Anthony Firinghee? Remembering the Portuguese-origin singer who is part of Bengali folklore

Arup K Chatterjee

· Sep 09, 2020 · 06:30 pm

Weekend Quiz: In which king’s court was 12th-century poet Jayadeva counted among the five gems?

The Heritage Lab

· Sep 05, 2020 · 04:30 pm

For those delegitimising Tippoo Saëb, an important lesson from his emissaries’ trip to 1788 France

Arghya Bose

· Aug 31, 2020 · 03:30 pm

Between strife and the pandemic: How has Kashmir been writing and publishing books?

Shivangi Mariam Raj Majid Maqbool

· Aug 29, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Weekend Quiz: Which king commissioned this stupa in Punjab?

The Heritage Lab

· Aug 29, 2020 · 11:30 am

How the East India Company made a celebrity out of a shipwreck survivor in 1738

Jennifer Howes

· Aug 18, 2020 · 09:30 pm

How Tipu Sultan and Haidar Ali inspired America’s founding fathers in their quest for freedom

Ameen Ahmed

· Aug 17, 2020 · 07:30 pm

My search for ‘Black Peggy’, a Bengal native who was seduced with a false promise of marriage

Margaret Makepeace

· Aug 16, 2020 · 09:30 pm