More than 18,000 artefacts that have been excavated and documented from Keeladi over eight rounds of excavations ...

Delhi clashes with UK heirs over gems interred with bones and ashes of The Enlightened One for thousands of years ...

While many of us think of games as something limited to two or four people around the table in a family, in ancient times, ...

The Jalankan, India’s ancient water clock ... In Mahabharata, the story of King Raivata traveling to the gods and returning to find centuries passed on Earth was an early nod to time dilation.

At 81, Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, India’s best-known elder statesman ... On taxation: “The ancient kings took taxes from the people as bees take honey —without harming the flowers.

One king of Ur, Sulgi, claimed to be able to speak ... Excerpted with permission from The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World by William Dalrymple, and published recently by ...

Approaching the king of the owls in this sorry state, he claimed the crows had violently thrown him out for suggesting they should sue for peace. Now, he lamented, his only wish was revenge ...

To read The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World is like ... don’t know enough to paint a very full portrait of a king such as Kanishka. Some of the lesser ones such as Vima ...

As Wendy Doniger points out, ancient Brahmins most ... An effigy of the demon king Ravana is set alight during the Dussehra festival in Jaipur, India, on 8 October 2019. (Photo by Vishal ...