Nalanda’s Dharmaganja was a vast ancient library complex housing diverse manuscripts. Its destruction remains one of the ...

A recent archeological dig in India uncovered stone tools, weapons, and other artifacts made by early humans which resemble tools found in Eastern and Southern Africa. The artifacts may help shed ...

Indian perfume history is an unbroken narrative stretching over four millennia, woven into art, ritual, and medicine from the ...

R ARELY CAN a spoonful of rice have caused such a stir. When M.K. Stalin, chief minister of Tamil Nadu, addressed the south Indian state’s legislature on September 9th, he celebrated a musty sample of ...

In the earliest text written in Marathi, a language of millions in western and central India, a 13th-century religious figure named Cakradhara points to an acacia tree as a symbol of the cycle of ...

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Indian genetic history is heterogeneous, multifaceted, complex, and unique relative to the population structures of other regions, such as East Asia (characterized by a tendency toward ethnic ...

University of Bath provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. It should come as no surprise that the first recorded use of the number zero, recently discovered to be made as early as the 3rd ...

Princeton University Press provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. As early as Homer, more than 2,500 years ago, Greek mythology explored the idea of automatons and self-moving devices.

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