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The Metropolitan Museum's newest exhibition, "Tree & Serpent: Early Buddhist Art in India, 200 B.C.E.-400 C.E.," features over 50 sculptures from India that took over a decade to gather on loan, making it the first exhibit of its kind in a United St...

New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art is hosting an exhibition of early Indian sculptures containing Buddhist stone exhibits curated by John Guy. The exhibition, which runs from 21 July to 13 November, will include a catalogue named Tree and Serpent...

Senior officials in New Delhi believe that such historical artefacts can reinforce a strong national cultural identity, with Lily Pandeya, Joint Secretary of the Ministry of Culture, quoted as saying: "Antiquities have both physical and intangible v...

Indeed, every time someone posts a photo of a Chola bronze or stone frieze depicting some Indian deity displayed in some museum-invariably private and usually in the US-thoughts inevitably turn to how they landed up there in the first place. It is h...

A thousand years before that, the trading routes across the world were controlled by Buddhist merchant kings. This is one aspect of Buddhism that has been obscured by European historians who since the nineteenth century have been more eager to proje...

The new 'stupa' has 133 sculpted sandstone panels on its drum and dome- including one of BR Ambedkar embracing Buddhism-and a brass-coated mandapam with eight statues of the Buddha (made by some 1,200 artisans from Allagadda in Andhra Pradesh. The s...

The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), which reopened the over 3,000 monuments under its control in the country to the public from June 16, has not capped the number of visitors and has allowed only online booking of tickets. However, officials s...

The approved plans will seek to conserve and develop core heritage assets of respective cities besides improving sanitation through solid waste management, easy access through signage’s and better mobility.