NPR's Scott Simon speaks to historian William Dalrymple about his latest book, "The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World." Before the Silk Road, there was India's Golden Road, says ...
The paths on Google Maps would have looked significantly different a thousand years ago. India was a country with a network of dusty trails, twisting hill routes, and seaside lanes that transported ...
Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison documents the work of the Deccan Heritage Foundation aimed at restoring the Karez of ...
India’s architectural heritage is grand, vast, and centuries deep. Yet for every Taj Mahal or Qutub Minar, there are a dozen more masterpieces buried under time, obscured by forests, or tucked away in ...
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 ...
A new mural on display in India’s new $110 million Parliament has become an unlikely target of ire among its South Asian neighbors, with Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh seeking an explanation from New ...
IT is not an easy task to write a popular introduction to the history of ancient India. A race, destitute of the historical sense, has left few records of early events save poems and dreary treatises ...