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Ancient & Medieval India

Ashoka Had His Edicts Cut in Greek and Aramaic at Kandahar and Named Five Hellenistic Kings in Rock Edict 13, Addressing the Greek World in Its Own Language and Its Own Word for Piety

Science & Space

The Baudhayana Sulbasutra, About 800 BCE, States the Rope Rule for a Rectangle's Diagonal and Gives the Square Root of 2 Correct to Five Decimal Places

Ancient & Medieval India

The Mauryan Pillared Hall at Kumhrar in Patna Stood on Eighty Polished Sandstone Columns, Was Located on 7 February 1913, and the ASI Began Uncovering Its Pillars Again on 1 December 2024

Ancient & Medieval India

The Naneghat Pass Above the Konkan Has a Satavahana Cave Inscription Listing Vedic Sacrifices and Fees That Include 11,000 Cows, 1,000 Horses and 24,400 Karshapanas

Science & Space

Pingala's Chandahshastra, Dated to About the Second Century BCE, Lists Every Pattern of Short and Long Syllables, Numbers Them in an Order That Matches Binary Counting and Counts Them by Doubling

Ancient & Medieval India

The Great Chaitya at Karla Is India's Largest Rock-Cut Buddhist Hall at 37.87 Metres Deep, With Wooden Roof Ribs and Gifts Recorded From Donors in Banavasi, Sopara and Dhenukakata

Ancient & Medieval India

Kanishka's Kushan Empire Reached From Bukhara to Patna, His Gold Coins Carried the Buddha, and the Peshawar Stupa Identified as His Measured 286 Feet Across

Ancient & Medieval India

Sir John Marshall Dug Taxila From 1913 to 1934 and Found Three Cities but No Lecture Hall, While the Jatakas Have a Prince Arriving With a Teacher's Fee of 1,000 Pieces

Ancient & Medieval India

One Cliff Was Forgotten for a Thousand Years. On Another, They Carved a Temple Downward Out of a Single Rock

Ancient & Medieval India

They Called It India's Golden Age. Golden for Whom?

Ancient & Medieval India

The Indian City That Had Flushing Toilets 4,500 Years Before Your Apartment Did

Ancient & Medieval India

Panini Fitted the Grammar of Sanskrit Into About 4,000 Rules That Build Words Step by Step, and Linguists and Computer Scientists Study the System as a Machine

Ancient & Medieval India

In 499 CE, a 23-Year-Old Said the Earth Spins

Ancient & Medieval India

Seleucus Gave Chandragupta the Lands Along the Indus for 500 Elephants. Four Greek and Roman Writers Recorded the Deal, and It Took Until 1793 to Say Who the King Was

Ancient & Medieval India

Harsha Held Northern India for 41 Years, and Much of What We Know About Him Comes From a Court Poet and a Chinese Monk He Patronised

Ancient & Medieval India

The Allahabad Pillar Names 9 Northern Kings and 12 Southern Kings in Samudragupta's Campaigns, and His Gold Coins Show Him Playing the Veena

Ancient & Medieval India

The Emperor Who Won a War, Counted the Dead, and Renounced Conquest