New DNA research shows that half the human beings alive today are descended from the Yamnaya, who lived in Ukraine 5,000 ...

Rightwing political parties and politicians in India have repeatedly demanded, unsuccessfully, to remove the words “secular” ...

The book might be considered a riposte to both right-wing and left-wing historiography in India; right-wing historians make fantastic claims that cloak India’s real and substantial achievements, while ...

This social upheaval abated to some extent during the over three century-rule of the Gupta dynasty, Shudras were allowed marginal rights such as that while they should never study the Puranas ...

Home Culture & Life Art the week recommends Ancient India: living traditions – 'ethereal and sensual' exhibition Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism are explored in show that remains 'remarkably compact' ...

Ancient India’s greatest engineering achievement wasn’t a monument but a metamorphosis. When Emperor Ashoka, who ruled most of the Indian subcontinent in the third century BCE, saw the carnage ...

Ancient structure that may be ‘world’s tallest’ discovered in Amazon rainforest The 1,310-foot-tall hill could hide the ruins of an ancient pyramid, according to local legends.

Ancient India: Living Traditions, which opens at the British Museum this week, traces the evolution of Hindu, Buddhist and Jain art.

An earthquake in central Myanmar just unearthed an ancient structure that may be part of a royal “water palace,” experts say. Previously, only a staircase was visible. Now, after the ...

Tara Gaming has unveiled plans for 'Bharatvarsha / The Age of Bharat,' an ambitious entertainment franchise set in ancient India.

A dim-witted tourist dumped water on ancient cave paintings to snap better photos for social media — and is now under investigation after posting the shots of the damaged historic art, according ...