On a hill overlooking the plain and about 40 km from Bhopal, the site of Sanchi comprises a group of Buddhist monuments (monolithic pillars, palaces, temples and monasteries) all in different states ...

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Ancient Maya burials, once thought to show human sacrifice, may instead reflect ancestral ties, according to a theory by Dr.

Davis and Stocker estimate that three-quarters of the finished grave goods in the warrior’s shaft come from Crete—a two-day’s sail to the south—rather than from local sources. There are ...

Amaravati is what happens when a place forgets that it’s supposed to age. Once a thriving Buddhist hub around 2,000 years ago, it now sits nonchalantly by the Krishna River. The Great Stupa ...

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Members of the local Buddhist community will mark the most important day on their religious calendar today. Vesak, also known as Buddha Day, is observed globally to commemorate the birth, ...

Only Tomb 6, sealed beneath a compact cap of ḥamra soil, preserved grave goods, yet those few objects have re-opened an old debate about how Romans in Syria-Palaestina equipped their dead.

Their tombs, filled with grave goods meant to serve the royals in the afterlife, might surprise you. A burial suit formed by thousands of jade tesserae contains the body of Princess Dou Wan.

Figures of animal bone were common grave goods at the time, but the origin of the miniature ebony busts that surfaced at the archaeological site in Tel Malhata was a mystery. While the carvings ...

Colombo, May 16 (Daily Mirror) - The Sri Lankan Buddhist Lawyers' Association has extended its warmest congratulations to the newly appointed 51st Chief Justice of India, Bhushan Ramkrishna Gavai ...