Patna: Agriculture was the driving force behind ancient India’s economy, society and state formation, speakers said at a lecture organised by the Bihar state archives directorate on Tuesday.Get ...

In ‘Sea of Treasures,’ UChicago historian Jeremy A. Simmons explores how commerce on the Indian Ocean reshaped Roman ideas of ...

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It should come as no surprise that the first recorded use of the number zero, recently discovered to be made as early as the 3rd or 4th century, happened in India. Mathematics on the Indian ...

The concept of zero is one of the most transformative and revolutionary contributions to mathematics and human knowledge. Its invention is attributed to ancient Indian mathematicians, particularly ...

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Water scarcity and climate change is driving communities to restore traditional water structures built centuries ago, ...

Imagine waking up before sunrise every day, not because of school, but because one day an entire kingdom may depend on the decisions you make. Before most children learned to read, you were already ...

Last week, a weird story popped to national prominence in India. The new chief minister of Tripura, a small state that borders Bangladesh, said that the internet existed during the ancient times, back ...