SCOTT SIMON, HOST: 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, to Korea and Japan in the Far ...

How ancient India changed the world. Story by Ishaan Tharoor • 37m. ... “A single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia.” ...

Depictions of Menopause in Ancient Literature In ancient literature, references to menopause are scarce and often implicit. Ancient Greek and Roman texts occasionally allude to the concept, albeit ...

Myth, machines, and revolution in ancient India: ... By definition, non-serious literature does not merit serious consideration, while religious hardliners – across religions ...

The Indus Valley nurtured the subcontinent's enduring and sophisticated cultures. Michael Wood explores the ancient sites that helped shape the history and culture of Pakistan and northern India ...

The result has been that even at present, after Sanskrit literature has been studied for nearly a hundred years, we are still completely in the dark as to the chronology of ancient Indian history.