Humans have only explored a tiny percentage of the seafloor, so there's a good chance some of the strangest creatures or ...

Why No One Talks About India’s Pyramid-Like Structures Introduction: The Pyramid Obsession When someone mentions the word “pyramid”, our minds instantly travel to the golden sands of Egypt, to the ...

Ekam sat viprā bahudhā vadanti” "Truth is one, the wise speak of it in many ways." — Rig Veda 1.164.46 The Modern Misunderstanding In today’s world, Hinduism is often boxed into predictable categories ...

His new book is "The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed The World," and William Dalrymple joins us now from Houston on his U.S. book tour. Thanks so much for being with us. WILLIAM ...

(Xi Jinping’s reaction was not recorded.) William Dalrymple does not deploy that Sanskrit phrase in “The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World.” But his audacious book’s aim ...

Adi Shankaracharya, the 8th-century philosopher and theologian designated Puri as one of the four "Dhams" of India, with the others being Badrinath, Dwarka, and Rameswaram. These are not ...

India's Chandrayaan-3 and China's Chang'e-6 missions have independently discovered primitive lunar mantle materials near the Moon's South Pole-Aitken basin. The Indian study, through in-situ ...

Although Damask roses are cultivated in other parts of India, the varietal favors Ganges ... The earliest known botanical perfumes date back to ancient Egypt, when plants were crushed and infused ...

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 ...

The Age of Bhaarat has been revealed by Tara Gaming Ltd, an Indian gaming studio that is aiming to bring Indian tales to the AAA gaming space. It is a studio comprised of some heavy hitters ...

The hierarchical identity system continues to divide the nation of 1.4 billion people almost 100 years after calls for its abolition. A woman in a Dalit area stands at the entrance to a house in ...

Pakistan and India — nuclear-armed rivals sharing a border in a flashpoint region — are trading artillery fire and threats of retaliation as tensions escalate after a May 7 Indian attack.