Centuries before highways, India’s merchants, monks, and travelers walked paths carrying silk, salt, and spices. Today, these ...

Explore India’s ancient trade routes, including the Grand Trunk Road, Salt Road, Old Silk Route, Dakshinapatha, and Kalinga ...

THE principal difficulty in the study of Indian antiquities has always been the absence of a chronological framework. The Indians themselves had no idea of what we mean by history. They possessed a ...

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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, says ...

From Vedic hymns to stone observatories, how ancient India mapped the cosmos, decoded time, and laid the foundations of modern astronomical thought Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla walks in the ...