Dear friends, Recent excavations at Lahuradewa by Dr Rakesh Tewari, specially latest season 2005-2006, put the dating of Rice, Barley, Copper and Steatite ...
Ms. Laskmi, You bring up an interesting point re the food habits during ancient historic period? I have often wondered what the food habits were during the...
Posted on Thu, Mar. 01, Archaeologists shed doubt on Jesus' tomb discovery By Alan Cooperman WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON - Leading archaeologists in Israel and...
... No, I'm chosing the names of one and the same supreme god, generally known as Imra in ethnographic literature, in various Nuristani languages as is clearly...
Do click on the link to see the photos. Note that we have a similar pattern in Varanasi, made up of 14 Aditya shrines that follow the sun's path through the...
Harappan site discovered in Rohtak district Chandigarh, March. 2 (PTI): A Harappan site with painted grey ware artifacts has been discovered near a village...
Dear Ram, It is amazing just to think that a lot of food items that we consider so much Indian were brought to India just 200-400 years ago. For example: Hot...
... While hot pepper (chili or jalapeno), tomato, cashew, papaya and sapota (chikoo) came from abroad, jack fruit did not. The jack fruit tree is native to...
Jackfruit is native to India - and specifically to the ghats area, not sure about Sapota. Tapioca also i believe is south american. Chili pepper, potato,...
... (PTI): A Harappan site with painted grey ware artifacts has been discovered near a village in Rohtak district in Haryana. The site with painted grey ware...
... <ayachitman@...> wrote: I am not sure Jackfruit is a recent import. Jackfruit, called palavu, palaa in Tamil, is indigenous in recorded history. For ...
... names ... generally ... one Speaking of theonyms the Vedic literature has the most of them more than any other so called branch of the so called IE...
Unfortunately every one seems to have lost track of the original topic i.e. the total lack of any archaeological work around MB. Look at other countries...
Found in India: the last king of France · Indian lawyer acclaimed as head of royal house · Prince Philip's cousin sets out 'incredible' theory Angelique...
... farmer, has always been fascinated by France. Sort of amusing that he has the name "Napoleon." Here is his pic. He's seems to have totally blended into...
From correspondents in Maharashtra, India, 10:05 PM IST After protesting the controversial blockbuster 'The Da Vinci Code' last year, Roman Catholics in the...
Dear Yashwant, Thank you very much for posting the story about Balthazar Napoleon de Bourbon, the supposed scion of the so-called Bourbons of India (a photo of...
Dear Mandar, Thanks for the details on imported crops. But I don't think the etymological point is always valid. In Tamil for instance, potato, cashew or...
Dear friends, Of course practically all of you know the alternative theory of Neolithic origin of Aryan people starting from Anatolian region at around 7000 BC...
That may be right because in Portuguese Jack Fruit is called as Jakka (Sic). I did not know the Tamil/Malayalam name. In Marathi it is called as Fanas. So...
Performance of funeral ceremonies in that region is still a part of our family traditions, especially on my mother's side. I recall that in 2002 September, I...
http://www.omilosmeleton.gr/english/en_index.html Vedic and Mesopotamian Cross-influences. Published in Migration & Diffusion (Vienna) 2005 and after some...
Dear Moderator, Please take notice, for the record, of the offensive allegations directed against my person by M. Kelkar in his IndiaArchaeology msg. ... ...
Harappan site discovered in Saurashtra Wednesday, February 21,2007 RAJKOT: In Saurashtra, another Harappan site has been discovered. This, say experts, could...
