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: ...

It’s this zone of Indian influence which encompasses not just trading contacts, but the diffusion of Indian ideas — most obviously religion, Hinduism, over Southeast Asia, but Buddhism over a ...

Academic point-scoring over long-dead excavators turns a potentially grand narrative into a series of inside-baseball footnotes ...

“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 ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, speaking at the centenary celebrations of Jain spiritual leader Acharya Vidyanand Maharaj, ...

Mr Modi extolled Acharya Vidyanand Maharaj Ji's legacy and his contribution to the revival of the Prakrit language, the ...

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, ...