カテゴリー: Heritage
Study identifies mystery elements in Kaogong ji, shedding light on how early bronzes were producedResearchers have deciphered enigmatic recipes for metal-making contained in an ancient Chinese text, revealing unexpected complexity in the art at the tim…
The US will return to Cambodia 30 looted antiquities, including bronze and stone statues of Buddhist and Hindu deities carved more than 1,000 years ago, US officials have said.The south-east Asian country’s archaeological sites – including Ko…
India’s tiny train has puffed up the Himalayas since 1881 but now the world heritage site is under threat“Darjeeling ko sano rail, hirna lai abo tyari cha / Guard le shuna bhai siti bajayo” (Darjeeling’s dainty train is all set to chug off / Oh, listen…
Most of the works, including stone and bronze sculptures, were bought from a US gallery run by alleged antiquities smuggler Subhash KapoorThe National Gallery of Australia will remove 14 works from its Asian art collection and return them to the Indian…
Building and repair ban had turned Dal Lake into graveyard for sinking boats even before coronavirus and Delhi crackdownGhulam Nabi Butt may be 90 years old, but he has never forgotten the three days that George Harrison came to stay on his houseboat i…
Building and repair ban had turned Dal Lake into graveyard for sinking boats even before coronavirus and Delhi crackdownGhulam Nabi Butt may be 90 years old, but he has never forgotten the three days that George Harrison came to stay on his houseboat i…
The west reduced tantra to a quest for sexual liberation and wellness. But a new show charts its darker depths – from avenging goddesses to blood-drinking and self-decapitationMake a cursory web search for the term tantra and you will be confronted wit…
Gandhi gave gold-plated glasses to vendor’s uncle who worked for BP in South Africa in 1920sA pair of gold-plated glasses worn by Mahatma Gandhi has sold in Britain for £260,000 after being found hanging in the letterbox of a Bristol auction house.“We …
The independent Ilkhom theatre in Tashkent opened under Soviet rule in 1976A cherished independent theatre in Uzbekistan is fighting eviction after realestate developers in the booming capital selected its historic location for a new business centre.Th…
The illustrated city: Gleaming skyscrapers are springing up, but a wander through this Indian city’s labyrinthine by-lanes still reveals glimpses of the pastUrbanisation and globalisation have swept sleepy Pune off its feet. This city in Maharashtra, w…