Cambodia should be a wonderful place to visit. Here are the pictures from Baphuon temple site. Workers rebuilding the Baphuon temple seek specific stones among...
The first Westerners to see the Tree of Ten Thousand Images, the most extraordinary religious relic in Buddhist Asia Two Lazarist Missionaries in Tibet By...
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Columbus and Western Civilization And so, how must I tell the story of Columbus? I concluded, I must see him through the eyes of the people who were here when...
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And what did Columbus want? This is not hard to determine. In the first two weeks of journal entries, there is one word that recurs 75 times: GOLD. In the...
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Chennai, January 5 India's East Coast, especially along Tamil Nadu, is increasingly drawing the attention of archaeologists and anthropologists from across the...
A British marine archaeologist, Graham ... Hancock is not an archaeologist of any sort, he is a writer. Here is what a real British marine archaeologist had to...
http://www.flonnet.com/fl2001/stories/20030117000409200.htm IN a massive conservation effort, the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has restored to their...
Dear List-members, Does anyone know what is the fate of relics excavated by Cunningham from the stupas he opened in the early fifties of the 19th century? ...
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... I have also wondered about that. It is frequently mentioned that the Sariputtta and Mauggalayana relics enshrined in the new vihara, are not the ones found...
... Just to complete the story, let me add the following. Perhaps there was no stealing. Bhante Anand of the Akhil Bharatiya Bhikshu Mahasangh is incidentally...
Xinhuanet 2002-12-10 GANSU, China -- Local legislature in Gansu province, northwest China, has passed a special law to better protect the Mogao Grottoes in ...
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Here is a photograph: http://archnet.org/library/downloader/image/12420/big/IHP0144.jpg Some of you probably remember a recreation in movie Mughle-azam. ...
Land of the jewelled lotus The ancient town of Nalanda was a monastic university of international repute. Today it lies in ruins, that are nevertheless...
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Calcutta, Jan. 13: Traces of an urban settlement over 2000 years old have been found under the mound on which Robert Clive built his house on...
Kolkata sits on 2,200-year-old history, origin disputed Krittivas Mukherjee (Indo-Asian News Service) Kolkata, January 16 The eastern metropolis of Kolkata,...
'Archaeological finds should be safeguarded' -Ilankumaran [TamilNet, January 12, 2003 19:47 GMT] Faculty of Archaeology should be established in universities...
You have probably hear the saying "Kahan Raja Bhoj and kahan Gangu Teli". Or perhas the recent Hindi song. There is perhaps no other Indian king who has more...
Am. J. Hum. Genet., 72:000, 2003 The Genetic Heritage of the Earliest Settlers Persists Both in Indian Tribal and Caste Populations T. Kivisild,1,7 S. Rootsi,1...
But does Bhavishya Purana really say that? There is section of Bhavishya Purana, Pratisarga Parva that mentions about Bhojaraja, Kalidas and Prophet Muhammad. ...
The Dhara Nagari (modern Dhar) is connected with just one person in popular tradition, Raja Bhoj. There is a story that a poet heard that Raja Bhoj has died. ...
Dear Group Members, The origin of the alphabet remains a mystery although the Phoenicians are usually credited with the invention. It is likely that the ...
... I think a critical study is required to date the original text and any possible later additions. I don't know if that has been done yet. Bhavishya Purana...
Saturday Magazine Paganism and the roots of Christian belief by B. A. Aryatilake Pagans! The word summons up images of wild, uncouth tribesman. But what do you...
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Note: no further details seem to be available. Yashwant ... Archaeologists find Ashok era Buddhist site in Uttaranchal Press Trust of India Dehra Dun, January...
