To take down priests, rulers or rich merchants using the sharpest words and imagery is as Indian and as ancient as daal-bhaat — the stand-up genre has simply come and joined this as a tributary ...

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Master and Disciple' brings Amrita Sher-Gil’s artistic lineage to life with 137 photos and eight original paintings. The ...

Historians from the University of Cambridge recently unveiled a rare 13th-century document that depicts the stories of King ...

A study of 16 Medieval manuscripts in Clairvaux Abbey in France found they were bound in a surprising material: sealskin.

Obi made the insight at the unveiling of a compendium of Igbo heritage, events and achievers, named, ’IGBO BOOK OF RECORDS”, ...

Hèléne Jawhara Piñer is a French-Spanish scholar whose focus is medieval history and the history of food. Her meticulously ...

Biomolecular analysis shows that unusual book coverings are made of sealskin, hinting at far-flung trade networks.

A trove of books written by medieval-era French monks were bound with bizarre “hairy” covers from far-away animals — shedding ...

Although Indian theorists knew this ethic well ... So goes the story in the third book (of five) in the “Pañcatantra,” titled “War and Peace.” A kingdom of owls was crushing the crows in battle, until ...

Also read: 8 Indian ... ancient civilizations. The region is already known for its archaeological treasures like Masada and the Dead Sea Scrolls caves, and now it offers even more reasons for ...

Chris Wickham is one of the best-known Marxist historians of the Middle Ages. In his book The Donkey and the Boat ... and thus our whole way of looking at economies in history. The Donkey and the Boat ...