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Cowry shells were first used in India as commodity money. [5] The Indus Valley Civilisation may have used metals of fixed weights such as silver for trade activities which is evident from the DK area of Mohenjo Daro from the late Harappan period (dated 1900–1800 BC or 1750 BC).
The Padmanabhaswamy temple treasure is a collection of valuable objects including gold thrones, crowns, coins, statues and ornaments, diamonds and other precious stones. It was discovered in some of the subterranean vaults of the Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Thiruvananthapuram, in the Indian state of Kerala, when five of its six (or possibly eight) vaults were opened on 27 June 2011.
The RMS Republic was a British ship built in 1903, the Republic was carrying $3,250,000 worth of gold and double eagles for the US Navy's Great White Fleet. However, the ship collided with the SS Florida and sunk. In 1919 an attempt was made to recover the lost money, but it was ultimately unsuccessful. [16] [17] Romanian Treasure: Confirmed ...
Manhattan’s District Attorney has sent back more than 1,400 looted artifacts as part of an ongoing initiative to repatriate stolen art from countries across South and Southeast Asia.
One of the earliest non-Indian scholars to take an interest in the archaeology of the Indian subcontinent were Western European travelers in the 16th, 17th and early 18th centuries. The earliest European written accounts of India's ancient monuments and Hindu temples were produced by sailors and travelers in the 16th, 17th and early 18th ...
The last volume was published in 1938–39. It was replaced by Indian Archaeology: A Review. Ancient India The first volume of Ancient India was published in 1946 and edited by Sir Mortimer Wheeler as a bi-annual and converted to an annual in 1949. The twenty-second and last volume was published in 1966. Indian Archaeology: A Review
Archaeologists found ancient tools in Spain, revealing the daily life and agricultural practices of early Neolithic societies from over 7,000 years ago.
In 2022, the US returned 307 recovered antiquities to India, worth more $4 million, three quarters of which were linked to Kapoor. [16] In April 2022, the Yale University Art Gallery surrendered items valued at more than $1 million as part of art looting investigation. The 13 South Asian artifacts returned by the museum were smuggled by Kapoor ...