投稿者: Dalya Alberge
British Museum will host treasures from Samarkand in a bid to dispel cliches of camels, spices and bazaarsA monumental six-metre-long wall painting created in the 7th century, and 8th-century ivory figures carved for one of the world’s oldest surviving…
The statue, once on sale at Sotheby’s, was recovered amid claims it was part of a precious trove of stolen artefactsFor more than 20 years, those who lived in and around the village of Lokhari in Uttar Pradesh, India, have prayed for the return of an i…
Treasures worth millions found in the last five years along the Musi River could be the site of the Srivijaya empireIt was a fabled kingdom known in ancient times as the Island of Gold, a civilisation with untold wealth that explorers tried in vain to …
Spy Princess is based on Noor Inayat Khan, killed in France while working as a British spy in second world warThe story of the daughter of an Indian Sufi mystic, who was killed while a British secret agent fighting with the French resistance in the sec…