The shagun envelope may carry Rs 100 or even Rs 1 lakh. But it is considered incomplete without the Re 1 coin. We explain its significance ...

The Suzhou exhibition displays a stone frieze originally from the North Palace of Nineveh that depicts the Assyrian siege of ...

Kate Eshelby takes her family to the Dhofar region of Oman where frankincense has been harvested for millennia. On their ...

For millennia, frankincense has been harvested in this region of Oman and traded to far-flung places such as Mesopotamia ... the Queen of Sheba came here to get frankincense for King Solomon ...

high, or about as high as the Statue of Liberty. The Queen of Sheba’s visit to King Solomon with “spices, and gold in abundance, and precious stones” had often been thought a pious tale ...

According to Diodorus of Sicily (90–20 BC), a decade before the arrival of the Macedonians, the Persian king Artaxerxes III (425–338 BC ... fifteen Ptolemies and an equal number of powerful queens ...

Spain’s King Felipe and Queen Letizia were left streaked in mud today and a bodyguard was left bleeding after a disastrous visit to the town of Paiporta, which was hit by a devastating flash ...

The King and Queen have only just touched back down in the UK from their 10-day tour of Australia and Samoa and already have their sights set on more travelling. According to The Mirror ...