A
Number of
Recent
findings in archaeology, genetics, cultural
continuity and other sciences are rewriting
history.
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  Aryan
Invasion — History or Politics?
By
Dr. N.S. Rajaram
The
evidence of science now points to two basic
conclusions: first, there was no Aryan invasion,
and second, the Rigvedic people were
already established in India no later than
4000 B.C.E.... Aryan
Invasion
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 Archaeology News Around the World
Ganging up on biblical archaeology
A Times Op-Ed writer stubbornly dismissed evidence that shows an important artifact from the Holy Land may not be a hoax. Nina Burleigh ("Hoaxes from the Holy Land” Op-Ed article, Nov. 29) is unwilling to consider the possibility that the now-famous bone box inscribed "James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus" is authentic.
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Vedic Roots of Early Tamil Culture
By
Michel Danino
In recent years
attempts have been made to cast a new
look at ancient India. For too long the
picture has been distorted by myopic
colonial readings of India’s prehistory
and early history, and more recently
by ill-suited Marxist models...
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 Underwater
Archaeology in the Gulf of Cambay
An innocuous piece of
wood along with a slew of artifacts are set
to push back Indian antiquity to 7,500 B.C.E.,
if material picked up from the sea-bed of
the Gulf of Cambay gets scientific verification... Cambay
Archaeology
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 Natural History of the Vedic Civilization
Unique conditions at the end of the Ice Age gave rise to agriculture in Southeast Asia. Its spread to India made the Vedic civilization possible.
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 The
Harappan Civilization
By Tarini J.
Carr
Thousands of years ago there thrived a civilization
in the Indus Valley; the earliest known urban
culture of the Indian subcontinent... Harappan
Civilization
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The Rock Art of Central India
"Despite
the excellent work carried out by my Indian
colleagues in the past quarter of a century,
Indian rock art is not as well known abroad
as it should be. And yet it is both extremely
abundant and spectacular..." Rock Art
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Art History Timelines
Comprehensive timelines of art history from all over the world. Details of every time period and particular events are given. This is a fantastic site, with many links to related information... Art history timelines |
UP village offers a fresh clue to solve a Harappan puzzle
The remains found in western UP. SINAULI, NOVEMBER 17: For thousands of years, the fields of Sinauli in western Uttar Pradesh hid their secret well. But now its past is out in the open. Beyond the village's brick lanes and lounging buffaloes, a burial site of the Harappans dating back to about 2,600 BC has finally given up its dead.. UP Village |
The Vedic Harappans in Writing
In the Harappan cities some 4200 seals, many of them duplicates, have been found which carry short inscriptions in an otherwise unknown script. There is not the slightest doubt that this harvest of Harappan writings is but the tip of an iceberg...
By Dr. Koenraad Elst
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Sculptures of the Indus Valley
The story of Indian art and sculpture dates
back to the Indus valley civilization of the
2nd and 3rd millennium B.C.E. Tiny terra-cotta
seals discovered from the valley reveal carvings
of peepal leaves, deities and animals. A golden
chapter of Indian sculpture opens in the 3rd
century B.C.E., when the Mauryan Emperor Ashoka
adopted Buddhism and set out to spread it's
teachings far and wide... Indus
Sculptures |
Vastu
Shastra- Sacred Vedic Architecture
By
Muktirajsinhji Chauhan
 Adherence
to Vastu Shastra, the ancient and medieval
canons on city planning and architecture,
has suddenly assumed tremendous significance,
particularly among the well-educated and affluent
in urban India. It may be difficult to predict
if this is just a fad ... Vastu
Shastra Article
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 The
Heliodorus Column
An archaeological
discovery shows that there were western followers
of Vedic principles twenty-two centuries ago.
The column erected by Heliodorus, a
Greek ambassador to India in the second century
B.C.E., first came to notice in 1877, during
an archaeological survey by General Cunningham.
To our knowledge, Heliodorus is the earliest
Westerner on record to adopt Vedic principles...
Heliodorus
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Origins
of Iron Ore Working in India
 Recent
excavations in Uttar Pradesh have turned
up iron artifacts, furnaces and
slag in layers radiocarbon dated between
c. B.C.E. 1,800 and 1,000. This raises again
the question of whether iron working was
brought in to India during supposed immigrations
of the second millennium B.C.E., or developed
independently... Iron
Ore |
South India Tour 
Join Tarini Carr and her visiting friend Ashley on their adventurous tour through south India... Travel Diary
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 A British View of India
During the last three centuries attempts of
most Westerners to penetrate the deeper dimensions
of Indian culture has at best been doomed
to superficiality... British
View of India
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