History

Taxila: The World’s First Intellectual Republic

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Long before Oxford was founded in the 11th century, and centuries before Harvard was chartered in the New World, a thriving intellectual capital was already shaping the course of human civilization in the northwestern valleys of what is today Pakistan. A City Before Its Time Known natively as Takshashila that means “City of Cut Stone”- Taxila was … Read more

New Four-Winged Dinosaur Species Found in Northwestern China

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A 120 million-year-old fossil from Gansu province has revealed a new microraptor species named Jian changmaensis. A fossil unearthed in what is now northwestern China has revealed a new species of feathered dinosaur. Scientists named it Jian changmaensis. It belonged to the microraptors, a group of small gliding cousins of the velociraptor. The fossil dates … Read more