This is what the ancient Indian Proto-Sarada script looks like, here on a 14-centimetre-wide piece of birch bark. The terms "market" and "merchant" appear in the text, which indicates an economic ...

In the heart of ancient India, people believed something truly powerful—animals had souls. They weren’t just beings to be used for work, protection, or rituals. They were seen as emotional, ...

Two men who lived around 2,500 years ago in what is now southern India have been brought to life in new digital reconstructions ... traded with far-away regions, wrote in an ancient form of the Tamil ...