How old is Indian civilization, and can it even be described as a single civilization at all? This episode traces the deep history of South Asia - from the Indus Valley Civilization and ancient ...

This iron dagger's well-preserved wooden handle may help researchers date artifacts found in Konthagai. Tamil Nadu Department of Archaeology Archaeologists working in the village of Konthagai in ...

Firaxis Games has released a trailer for the latest addition to Civilization VII. In this new trailer, they just revealed Lakshmibai, the ruler of Jhansi who became a symbol of rebellion against the ...

The pen might be mightier than a sword but, as Ramesh Chandra Majumdar, one of India’s leading historians of the 20th century, put it in 1970, the spade of the archeologist can be mightier than the ...

Historical context: Founded in 322 BCE, the Maurya Empire grew to be the largest empire in South Asia up to that point. Controlling land from what is now Afghanistan all the way to the Bengal Delta, ...

Two men who lived around 2,500 years ago in what is now southern India have been brought to life in new digital reconstructions — and research into their remains is revealing secrets about their ...

When I joined the Oriental Institute at Warsaw University as a student 20 years ago, my specialization was “Indology,” but the institution I was studying at was called the Chair of South Asian Studies ...

The environment has always been a vital part of our lives. The question here is, have we always been conscious of this fact, or have we been in a state of nescience? Even a microscopic human action ...