The Vedic Period marked a crucial time between the Bronze and Iron Ages in India, following the fall of the Indus Valley Civilisation. In this video, we explore the people, culture, religion, and ...

A newly discovered lost city in Rajasthan, tied to the sacred writings of India, reveals evidence of culture, trade, and ...

A new exhibition at the British Museum in London showcases the rich journey of India's spiritual art. Titled Ancient India: ...

“This kind of imagery is now part of day-to-day life,” says the curator Sushma Jansari of the types of objects included in the British Museum’s new exhibition Ancient India: Living ...

In the Ramayana, two sages stand out as Gurus. Vishwamitra, once a king, chose the path of a sage after years of personal ...

Ancient India shows that the visual culture of these three religions originates in the long-standing veneration of nature spirits: yakshas (male) and yakshis (female), nagas (serpent divinities ...

A 15th-century copper plate from the Vijayanagara Empire has revealed India’s first direct mention of Halley’s Comet, proving ...

How ancient India changed the world. ... It’s this zone of Indian influence which encompasses not just trading contacts, but the diffusion of Indian ideas — most obviously religion, Hinduism, ...

Unlike that opening sentence, Ancient India: Living Traditions is a very respectful and carefully managed show of religious art by the British Museum in which, quite honestly, the stirring ...

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 ...