Science: Archaeology: Regional: Asia: India

A survey of Buddhist archaeological sites with links to photographs of surviving stupas and museum sculpture collections.

Article by Dr. Michael W. Meister discussing a red sandstone attached sculpture of Narasimha (Vishnu as the Man-Lion or Killer of Demons).

A special exhibition at the Frank H. McClung Museum in 1998. Includes a short description of textiles in ancient India.

An article discussing research into mDNA base sequences, combined with archaeological and linguistic data as applied to the question of the peopling of India.

An editorial article in Frontline discussing history as projected by Hindutva ideologues, which is being introduced to children through textbooks and is being imposed upon research institutes.

Recent discovery of a stone portrait of a woman scholar of the 10th century.

Status of Women in 14th Century South India.

Examples of cave art dating back over 20,000 years.

An article by Shailendra Bhandare on approaches to the classification of Archaic Indian punch marked coins.

An alternative explanation of alleged artifacts from the Gulf of Cambay, western India.

An article in Frontline reporting that participants at the Kolkata session of the Indian History Congress express concern over attempts to distort history in school textbooks and thus subvert secular education.

From Deseret News, on how spices, gems and other exotic cargo excavated from an ancient port on Egypt's Red Sea show that the sea trade between the Roman Empire and India was more extensive than previously thought.

Metallurgists at Kanpur IIT have discovered that a thin layer of misawite, a compound of iron, oxygen and hydrogen, has protected the 1,600-year-old cast iron pillar from rust.

An article from the BBC reporting the discovery of two statues of King Asoka.

From the Telegraph, members of a remote community of Indians who claim to be descendants of one of the 10 lost tribes of Israel are resisting plans to carry out genetic tests to prove their Jewishness.

From Guardian Unlimited, a court in India ordered archaeologists to excavate the site of the demolished Ayodhya mosque to determine whether a Hindu temple ever existed there.