Imagine a time when intellectual and cultural treasures traveled as freely as spices, gems, and silk. A time when India wasn’t merely a land of spirituality but the beating heart of a cultural and ...

THE principal difficulty in the study of Indian antiquities has always been the absence of a chronological framework. The Indians themselves had no idea of what we mean by history. They possessed a ...

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The paths on Google Maps would have looked significantly different a thousand years ago. India was a country with a network of dusty trails, twisting hill routes, and seaside lanes that transported ...

In the third century BCE, Ashoka ruled an empire encompassing much of modern-day India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh. During his reign, Buddhism proliferated across the South Asian ...

From Vedic hymns to stone observatories, how ancient India mapped the cosmos, decoded time, and laid the foundations of modern astronomical thought Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla walks in the ...

India's ancient Shiva temples, from Kedarnath to Rameshwaram, align in a nearly perfect straight line on the 79-degree longitudinal mark. This alignment suggests advanced knowledge of geography and ...

A new mural on display in India’s new $110 million Parliament has become an unlikely target of ire among its South Asian neighbors, with Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh seeking an explanation from New ...