Centuries of texts composed in Marathi, a language primarily spoken in the western Indian state of Maharashtra, challenge a long-held narrative about the tropical savannas there. Instead of being ...

In the earliest text written in Marathi, a language of millions in western and central India, a 13th-century religious figure ...

Nalanda’s Dharmaganja was a vast ancient library complex housing diverse manuscripts. Its destruction remains one of the ...

Indian perfume history is an unbroken narrative stretching over four millennia, woven into art, ritual, and medicine from the ...

Soaring temperatures are expected to damage heritage structures, often built from lime, stone and timber. These buildings ...

Only a few years ago, things did not seem to be going well for India’s various alphabets, often known as the Indic or Brahmic scripts after the historical Iron Age script that is the ancestor of ...

One of the biggest mathematical achievements in human history has to do with the origin of nothing—or zero, to be more specific. Researchers at the University of Oxford's Bodleian Library recently ...