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Scholarly investigation into Indian archaeology was largely influenced by Alexander Cunningham, who became the first director of the Archaeological Survey of India, which was established in 1861. Cunningham along with various assistants visited many sites and monuments of archaeological importance in India.
Early Indians: The Story of Our Ancestors and Where We Came From is a 2018 nonfiction book written by Indian journalist Tony Joseph, [1] [2] [3] that focuses on the ancestors of people living in South Asia today. [4] [5] Joseph goes 65,000 years into the past [6] —when anatomically modern humans first made their way from Africa into the ...
Indian cultural influence (Greater India) Timeline of Indian history. Chandragupta Maurya overthrew the Nanda Empire and established the first great empire in ancient India, the Maurya Empire. India's Mauryan king Ashoka is widely recognised for his historical acceptance of Buddhism and his attempts to spread nonviolence and peace across his ...
Ruins of the Southern Gateway, Sanchi in 1875, photographed by Joseph David Beglar. Joseph David Beglar, or Joseph David Freedone Melik Beglar (1845–1907), was an Armenian-Indian engineer, archaeologist and photographer working in British India and reporting to the Archaeological Survey of India, known for his images of temples and religious art.
Royal inscriptions were also engraved on copper-plates as were the Indian copper plate inscriptions. The Edicts of Ashoka contain Brahmi script and its regional variant, Tamil-Brahmi, was an early script used in the inscriptions in cave walls of Tamil Nadu and later evolved into the Tamil Vatteluttu alphabet . [ 16 ]
The extent of the Indus Valley Civilisation. This list of inventions and discoveries of the Indus Valley Civilisation lists the technological and civilisational achievements of the Indus Valley Civilisation, an ancient civilisation which flourished in the Bronze Age around the general region of the Indus River and Ghaggar-Hakra River in what is today Pakistan and northwestern India.
The Pandu culture flourished in the present-day eastern Indian state of West Bengal, which is the western part of the historical Bengal region. [ 4 ] The culture thus spread in the lower Ganges valley, from the Bhagirathi-Hooghly River , one of the two main tributaries of the Ganges , in the east to the eastern fringes of the Chota Nagpur ...
UTC+5.30 (Indian Standard Time) Kunal is a pre-Harappan Indus Valley civilisation settlement located, just 30 km from Fatehabad City in Fatehabad district of Haryana state in India . Compared to other IVC sites, such as cities like Rakhigarhi and towns like Kalibangan , Kunal site was a village. [ 1 ]