From Ancient Egypt to Roman Britain, brewers are reviving beers from the past nycshooter/Getty Images The revival of ancient brews is a drinkable window into history Beer archaeologists are peering back millennia to recreate brews from ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome using ancient methods and ingredients. When food historian Tasha Marks initiated a 2018 project entitled Pleasant Vices at London's …
In the 76th year of our Independence, the Prime Minister’s statement welcoming G-20 delegates to “the mother of democracy” is plastered on billboards across the nation’s capital. It is true that a sort of democracy prevailed in ancient Indian villages: Kautilya’s Arthashastra gives a comprehensive account of the system of village administration prevailing in antiquity, and evidence of the village …
Manmade music has been shaping our world for tens of thousands of years, long before writing, its arguably-more-tangible cousin, was born. A century later, Plato and then his disciple Aristotle would reject this idea of cosmic harmony, and argue that the true purposes of music was social, educational and personal. He even wrote that the cultural influence of new music …
