I wrote this book as a personal grouch,“ said historian and author William Dalrymple to a rapt audience as he introduced his ...

The Indian subcontinent’s connections to the West, especially via the Roman empire, were far richer than once thought.

More than 1000 settlements sprawled across 250,000 square miles of what is now Pakistan and northwest India from 2600 BCE ... and read the next line. This ancient writing system was used more ...

A local government in India is offering ... who cracks the code of an ancient script found in the ruins of one of the world’s earliest civilizations. The writing was discovered on pottery ...

the country’s ancient capital, is named after India’s Ayodhya, legendary birthplace of Rama. Dalrymple’s talents include travel writing and art criticism, and he helps us picture the ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to historian William Dalrymple about his latest book, "The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World." Before the Silk Road, there was India's Golden Road ...

Therefore, Ancient India provides an engaging sourcebook for ... Singh is pretty clear about the craft of a historian and the limits of writing history. For example, references to the Mahabharata ...

A game that could be completed in a weekend stretched into a full week as I began writing down the names ... the game seeks to highlight a place — ancient India — and the culture it birthed.

There is no doubt that religious sects in ancient India were accommodative of each ... Against the Grain highlights the problems of writing history, especially for schoolchildren.

Some of those remain undecipherable, like Rongorongo, found on Easter Island, and Indus, the writing of the ancient people of what is now Pakistan and India. In order to decipher or translate a dead ...