These contributions laid the groundwork for modern astronomy and celestial navigation. The famed Wootz steel of ancient India was so superior in quality that it became the material of choice for ...

Nalanda’s impact in the field of mathematics and astronomy was particularly significant ... writes in his book The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World: “From Baghdad, these ...

The ancient universities of India were intellectual powerhouses that attracted scholars from distant lands interested in studying mathematics and astronomy as well as philosophy and medicine.

How Ancient India Transformed the World', highlights India’s often-forgotten role as an economic and civilisational hub ...

Experts of ancient Indian astronomy claim that the Hale-Bopp comet visible in the sky nowadays has been described at length by renowned Indian astronomer Acharya Varahamihir, as ''Kashyap Shwet ...

In this episode Michael Wood shows us some of the amazing achievements of medieval India: In astronomy they discovered ... (founded in 1010), to see the ancient rituals still being performed.