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The Pillars of Ashoka

The Pillars of Ashoka are a series of columns dispersed throughout the northern Indian subcontinent, erected by the Mauryan king Ashoka during his reign in the 3rd century BC.

Mystery Of World’s Largest Ritualistic Killing Of Children In Ancient Peru

More than 140 children were ritually killed in a single event in Peru more than 500 years ago. What could possibly have been the reason?

A Tour to the Ancient City of Mohenjo Daro

This 3D documentary is about Mohenjo Daro, one of the largest settlements of the ancient Indus Valley civilization, and one of the world’s earliest major...

Ancient Indus Valley Civilization

A vast ancient civilization developed along the valley of the River Indus in modern-day India and Pakistan. For a while, in about 2500 BCE, it was one of the greatest civilizations of the world. It covered more than 386,000 square miles, even bigger than the civilizations of Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia combined.

Lion Capital of Ashoka at Sarnath

The pillars of Ashoka are a series of columns dispersed throughout the Indian subcontinent, erected or at least inscribed with edicts by the Mauryan Emperor Ashoka during his reign from c. 268 to 232 BC.

Ancient Indian units of length measurement

An exact value of the unit of length measurement, used in Indus Valley Civilization, has been determined from the precise scale discovered by Ernest Mackay in the...

The lost city of Rakhigarhi

Spread over 350 hectares, this nondescript village in Haryana is the biggest Harappan civilisation site in the world. It is the only place which has the remains of early, mature and late phase of Indus Valley Civilisation at the same location text.
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