Have you ever thought about how old coins can reveal stories from India’s past? Imagine a busy marketplace where traders exchange goods, their coins carrying the history of kings and empires.

Although preceded by two Guptan rulers, Chandragupta I (reign 320-335 CE) is credited with establishing the Gupta Empire in the Ganges River valley in about 320 CE, when he assumed the name of the ...

Episode Four is the story of India in the Middle Ages. At the time of the fall of the Roman Empire in the West, and the European Dark Ages, India had a series of great flowerings of culture, both ...