Nearchus, the Navigator, bridged East and West with a daring voyage that reshaped ancient maritime strategy and trade routes.

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

For example, one estimate is that one third of the Roman empire’s entire revenue was generated by taxes on trade with ancient India. Historian William Dalrymple’s latest book — The Golden ...

The parchment scroll, made in the Middle Ages, is the only surviving copy of a road map from the late Roman Empire. The document, which is almost seven metres long, shows the network of main Roman ...

Mohammad Rafiqul Alam said that the main idea behind the installation of the mural was to display ancient India ... we learned is that India's Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson said that this ...

The mural depicts a map of an ancient ... the spokesperson of India’s Ministry of External Affairs, Arindam Bagchi, said it portrays the ancient Ashoka Empire and symbolizes “the idea of ...

and inspired the greatest emperor of ancient India, Ashoka, whose Mauryan empire connected northern and peninsular India upwards into Afghanistan and beyond. With the trained eye of an art historian ...

How Ancient India Transformed the World." Before the Silk Road, there was India's Golden Road, says historian William Dalrymple. It was a route that ran from the Roman Empire in the West ...