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How Many People Lived in the Angkor Empire? By Sarah Klassen and Alison Kyra Carter This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. How big were the world’s ancient cities? At its height, the world’s first city of Uruk may have had about 40,000 people about 5,000 years…
Discovering Africa’s Oldest Burial By Alison Crowther and Patrick Faulkner This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. Africa is often referred to as the cradle of humankind—the birthplace of our species, Homo sapiens. There is evidence of the development of early symbolic behaviors, such as pigment use…
The Vav – An Aesthetic Innovation of Gujarat Ranjit Pawar | Dissertation – June 2021 | Jnanapravaha, Mumbai Ancient monuments provide insights into the cultural milieu of their times. In India, we have countless monuments starting from the third century BCE all the way to the colonial period. Stone pillars, stupas, temples, mosques,…
Much has already been written about the acquired Indian lifestlyes and habits of British officers of the East India Company (EICo), who settled down in 18th century Calcutta. William Dalrymple’s White Mughals has many such examples, and even otherwise, history is rich with stories of EICo men who aspired to have the opulent lives of…
Listen to the story of Mughal Emperor Akbar’s experiments with philosophy and religion that led him to create a beautiful assembly known as the Ibadat Khana, that could accomodate hundreds of scholars from all religions and sects.
Google this – “The World’s first News Agency” – and you should ideally get this response “Founded in 1835 as Agence Havas, and changing its name in 1944 Agence France-Presse (AFP) is the world’s oldest news agency, and is the third largest news agency in the modern world after the Associated Press (AP) and Reuters.”…
Get dazzled by some interesting turbans that were nothing less than a fashion statement of their times….
To know more about the curious monument in the above image, read this story of a soldier from Europe who went on to become the trusted general of one of the most powerful military leaders of 18th century India . . .
Anyone who is familiar with the Indus Valley or Harappan Civilization, would also remember the curious figure of a unicorn-like animal on the seals. In fact, there are over 1,000 Harappan seals featuring this animal. So, it must have surely meant have something special to the people of this culture. However, the question raised most…
The term Bakhar may be a new term for many, but it was one of the most common forms of recording facts, evidence, and later history, in Maharashtra. The origin of this term is sometimes traced back to the Arabic term, Khabar, which in modern times has also come to be identified with news, although…