How Indians and their boats fared in the deep sea: Clues from a little-known past
As the Centre and the Navy collaborate to construct and sail in a 21-metre “stitched ship”, built using an age-old technique, a look back at India’s maritime history
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As the Centre and the Navy collaborate to construct and sail in a 21-metre “stitched ship”, built using an age-old technique, a look back at India’s maritime history
The figure was excavated in a temple to the goddess Isis at an ancient Red Sea port. It suggests that the two worlds were closer than previously thought
A 1,900-year-old statue of Buddha suggests that there was a Buddhist settlement during the Roman Era, according to Live Science.
Finding a Buddha statue in Berenike port, shows Roman Egyptian links with India, in trade and religious beliefs too.
Not only does the statue shed greater light on trade between ancient Rome and India, it also is the first Buddha found west of Afghanistan