M. Saleem Beg gives a historical perspective of Archeology, Culture and Architecture of Srinagar city Throughout time, cities have played a vital role in the...
By Indo Asian News Service Islamabad, June 2 (IANS) The remnants of a temple and a house that belonged to Mahant Narain Das, a controversial head priest who...
Ancient Hindu Temple Damaged in Indonesian Earthquake By Chad Bouchard Yogyakarta, Indonesia 04 June 2006 Pieces of destroyed columns are seen scattered at...
New Delhi, May 28 (IANS) Delhi's visual past is getting blurred with over 300 heritage sites having disappeared over the last century. A survey of historical...
THE FAST-LANE PRESENT - Delhi’s monuments to callousness Shahid Amin The author is professor of history, University of Delhi Flagstaff Battery, Felice...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharmayuddha Dharmayuddha - Ancient rules in war in India http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharmayuddha Dharmayuddha is a Sanskrit...
... I don't really know what the official etymology is, so don't quote me, but I wonder if "birbal" isn't derived from a Sanskrit compound of vIra- "brave or ...
We dont need to resort to pAla bal is a common word across north indian languages meaning strength. There are many names in panjab that have bal as part of the...
Mahasthangarh 1,200-yr-old temple, road dug out Hasibur Rahman Bilu, Bogra (The Daily Star June 07, 2006) The Archaeology Department has discovered a Buddhist...
Another version is: "History has shown that Akbar had respected non-Islamic traditions unlike his contemporaries, and one of such respects was to bestow...
oops, my first reply hasn't got through (perhaps my own mistake with "send"). Here a new attempt: Rather, David, it is derived from Viira and Bala = strength....
... <pathma@...> wrote: “We now have strong evidence for multiple sites of domestication of rice,” Schaal told The Telegraph over the telephone. ...
... Oh yes, from Sanskrit 'bala-'. I incorrectly assumed that 'Birbal' contained a long 'a', and so considered only Sanskrit 'bAla-', "boy, child", which of...
... Paul, The evidence of multiple rice domestication is confirmed by a Fuller's paper to be published this year that Dorian kindly sent me before giving it to...
New interest in j&k ‘Jesus grave’ - By Yusuf Jameel http://www.asianage.com/ Srinagar, June 11: The hypothesis that Jesus Christ is buried in a central...
Sunday, 11 June 2006, 13:56 GMT 14:56 UK Roman amphora pieces abound in Pattanam Archaeologists working on India's south-west coast believe they may have...
... Archaeology is not a good way to solve this problem. First of all, archaeology is only partial evidence that changes all the time. And some areas are good...
We had the recent discovery of an inscribed stone celt from Sembiyan Kandiyur (cempu in Tamil means 'copper'; kand means in Santali 'fire-altar, furnace'),...
After some thinking and reading-- I see many people say Muzris may not be Kodungalloor. But Let me ask some questions. From my understanding, Pattanam,...
*http://tinyurl.com/n9pog *THANJAVUR: Perhaps for the first time in the history of Tamil Nadu, pre-Iron Age burials were unearthed at Thandikudi near...
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Center for Indic Studies June 14, 2006 Conference to Resolve Aryan/Non-Aryan Origin of Indian Civilization Recently, a...
This abstract may be of interest to some here. Regards, Paul Kekai Manansala http://sambali.blogspot.com/ ... Hum Hered. 2006 Jun 12;61(3):132-143 Iran:...
A very peculiar institution, this Center "of" Indic Studies. None of the faculty have any degrees or academic positions related to the subject matter of the...
STATE ARCHEOLOGY DEPT TO UNDERTAKE 6-MONTH TOUR OF COUNTRIES THAT BUDDHA’S DISCIPLES VISITED AFTER SARNATH SERMON Trailing the footsteps of Buddha’s...
Borobudur and Merapi: What went on before? Tuesday, June 13, 2006 Handewi Soegiharto, Contributor, Jakarta Mount Merapi has been the focus of much media...