NEW YORK, NY – A rare and sacred collection of ancient Buddhist relics, believed to be linked to the cremated remains of the Buddha, has returned to India more than a century after it was first ...

The ancient cities in India are not just places with a history, but also a history associated with power, spirituality, knowledge, and richness. Giving your home a name related to these ancient cities ...

Northeast India, particularly Assam, served as a corridor for ancient people moving between the Indian subcontinent and eastern and Southeast Asia, a study has found, challenging a long-held view that ...

Long before roads brought people closer, trails scripted a region’s history. They took traders and scholars across the high passes. Resourceful kings, familiar with the terrain, strategised important ...

According to the researchers, the inscriptions’ discovery is not new. Early Egyptologists noticed them, but did not know what language they’d been written in and were unable to translate. Cikai Korran ...

Some 2,000 years ago, a man from India named Cikai Korran scratched his name in several places inside rocky tombs in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, the sacred burial site of pharaohs and elites, ...

We Indians have rather a complicated relationship with feet and footwear. On again, off again. No shoes in the house, definitely no shoes on the bed (those Hollywood movies make us shudder!), no shoes ...

The author is assistant professor (History) at the Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, Delhi University. Women’s empowerment is a pressing issue in the 21st century. It’s heartening to note that women’s ...

What ancient India knew that the world forgot Long before many of the world’s great empires rose, ancient India was already shaping philosophy, science, trade, and culture. From the Indus Valley to ...

India’s history stretches back hundreds of thousands of years, beginning with early human settlement and the rise of one of the world’s first urban civilizations along the Indus River. Over time, ...

Centuries of texts composed in Marathi, a language primarily spoken in the western Indian state of Maharashtra, challenge a long-held narrative about the tropical savannas there. A new study adds to ...

A group of nearly 250 performers took the stage Saturday for one of the largest student organization-run events at the University of Missouri, India Nite. The Cultural Association of India held its ...