Has Anybody comes across any references of Janmejay (post Mahabharat) issuing copper plates. Suppossedly the plates said that they were issued in 89th Kali...
Dear friend, Many thanks for your suggestion < How about heliacal rising/setting of a star for any particular year.> It is a very laudable suggestion indeed...
Centrally protected monuments untraceable About 35 centrally protected monuments/sites which were supposed to get protection from the Archaeological Survey of...
This is in response to the views expressed by M K Koul, Chairman Karwan-i-Aman "Shadows of a forgotten past" (GK August 12 and 13 Greater Kashmir). Koul has...
Wednesday, August 30th, 2006 New Delhi - For admirers of Mirza Ghalib's poetry, this will be a treat. Visitors to the master poet's haveli in Delhi's old...
Babu Ahmed's photographs uncover our rich cultural heritage Harun ur Rashid Photographer Babu Ahmed considers the whole of Bangladesh to be a museum. And he...
Kodla Moth, Bagerhat The flavour of temple architecture The claws of time and nature have withered most of the warm rusty red terracotta plaques, while patches...
Maneesh Chhibber Tribune News Service Chandigarh, August 27 They are our link to the country's glorious past. But, this link is in the danger of being snapped....
*AP site yields new Buddhist school based on goddess*<http://asianage.com/main.asp?layout=2&cat1=1&cat2=209&newsid=243723> 8/28/2006 10:17:34 PM *- By Naresh...
Dear friends, Namaste! When we study the history of Indian astronomy right from the day we started using the Surya Sidhanta of Maya the mlechha, we find that...
I have a very old Idol that I am attempting to identify what it represents and any other details. There is in the photo section, a folder that has a picture of...
Isn't the nakshatra astrology of the Vedas primarily sidereal and lunar? The sidereal astrology appears to relate to the heliacal rising or setting of an...
It is hard to see, but it appears to be a crowned Buddha/Akshobhya idol in Bhu-sparsha mudra. See for example: http://www.lasieexotique.com/mag_buddha_II.html ...
 Hello, What I could gather from the photo was probably a Buddhist bronze. I think you should take a photo with a light background , may be white/cream / off...
Dear "themysteryidol", ... Prof. John C. Huntington and his friends working on the Huntigton Archive website have posted a "how to" on digital photography of ...
Interesting new Y chromosome study out. I guess the AIT (Aryan Influence Theory) advocates could use this one although it's somewhat different. Obviously...
Hello, Yes I have added some more photos. I always seem to find a problem with the images I take of this, but some are actual film pictures that just came...
Dear friends, Namaste! I am forwarding the below post of India Archaeology forum. The learned author has raised very important points. In fact, these are the...
ASI says despite several notices, historic structures are defaced by miscreants, AMC Tanvir A Siddiqui Ahmedabad, September 4: IT may have the most number of...
Google Earth programme leads to remains of ancient villa. Declan Butler Analysis of a Google map led to the discovery of a Roman villa like this one in...
Micronesia Mystery Hinduism Today December, 1992 On a tiny island of Micronesia lies one of archaeology great mysteries -- the ruins of the ancient canal city...
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/world/4171070.html Historic site turning into temple theme park Ancient pagodas in Myanmar are being restored by bogus...
Dear Jai, ... On Prof. William S. Ayres' webpage on Nan Madol at http://www.uoregon.edu/~wsayres/NanMadol.html there is no suggestion whatsoever of an...
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-09/uoea-ccr090406.php Severe climate change was the primary driver in the development of civilisation, according to...
... I don't know if there was "cultural colonization," but the Nan Madol hydraulic technology and monolithic might have some relation to the Igorot rice...