The Indian Navy inducted INSV Kaundinya, a traditionally-built stitched ship, at Karwar naval base, symbolizing India's maritime heritage. ...

The oldest Tamil epics are based on women from mercantile families. It has nothing to do with warriors or priests. The heroines of Shilapad...

This connection between Arabia and the Indian subcontinent is often overlooked. The central civilisational role of these desert and sea peo...

In the new textbook, the river finds a prominent place in a chapter on the "Beginnings of Indian Civilisation", where the Harappan civilisa...

Long before horses existed in the world of commerce, at the time pyramids were being built in Egypt, and ziggurats in Mesopotamia, there ex...

Perhaps these stories remind us also of the animal instincts of human beings. Animals have territories, and establish pecking orders, to en...

Power in ancient India was established not by the accumulation of material wealth, but by the aesthetic denial of material development.

These pillar members were also exported to distant Mohenjo-daro and Harappa, probably through a navigable Rann and upstream the Indus River...

India’s coastal regions were associated with sea trade, as per a 2000-year-old Greek text, Periplus of the Erythraean Sea. It mentions trad...

The discovery, published in the prestigious 'Nature' journal on May 25, may force a global rethink on the timelines of the so-called 'cradl...

The country’s sole Customs and excise museum in Goa offers a glimpse into the battle of wits between smugglers and Customs sleuths.

In Rukministhan of Nalanda at Bihar, the mound revealed several structures like votive stupas, brick walls, a colossal image of Buddha and ...

Swaraj today quoted these lines to emphasise that India and Arab world are not "new friends" and partners, but their relationship that date...

The Harappan city of Dholavira seems more mysterious than ever in full moonlight.

Vice President M Hamid Ansari today said that India was the lynchpin of sea-based trade and commerce for at least four millennia.

About 75 km from here lies a landmark of Indian maritime history. Archaeologists believe the first tidal dockyard in the world was built in...

300th anniversary of Guru Granth Sahib.