I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges Voltaire Voltaire wasn t far from the truth when he made this remark about Indic wisdom becoming accessible through the ...

This is the moment a stray dog decided to have a nap in the middle of a traditional 'salt carpet' in São Gonçalo, Brazil on ...

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The Forgotten Capital of Duggar First mention of Babor anciently as Babbapura is found in Kalhana’s Rajatarangini, wherein ...

Workers remove a 'The Piprahwa Gems' sign from the wall after auction house Sotheby's postpones an auction of gems tied to Buddha's corporeal relics, following opposition from India, which claims the ...

Ancient India: Living Traditions, which opens at the British Museum this week, traces the evolution of Hindu, Buddhist and Jain art. It explores the deepening popular need to see, ...

Today's WorldView How ancient India changed the world. The Indian subcontinent’s connections to the West, especially via the Roman empire, were far richer than once thought.

In 1898, British landowner William Claxton Peppé excavated an ancient funerary monument on his estate in northern India. The site revealed a trove of 1,800 jewels, as well as ash and bone fragments.

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Before the Silk Road, there was India's Golden Road, says historian William Dalrymple. It was a route that ran from the Roman Empire in the West, to Korea and Japan in the Far ...

Rather than discard these markers, caretakers affixed them to the wall, creating what looks like a macabre waiting room for souls whose monuments lost their original placement. The brick wall itself ...

A massive tomb more than 3,600 years old has been unearthed within a royal necropolis in Egypt. The wealthy king that the tomb belonged to remains a mystery.