This article is written for travelers who visit India to explore its remarkable historical heritage—its magnificent forts, grand palaces, imposing tombs, sacred places of worship, and the rich cultural legacy left behind over centuries.It traces the rise and fall of the major kingdoms and dynasties that ruled India from 1191 CE to 1947. It explores […]
History
The Rise Of Muslim Empires
When Muslim powers started rising, the Byzantine Christian empire was ruling in the Near East, Middle East, and Balkan regions. Let us have a look at the Byzantine Empire timeline. The Byzantines adopted Christianity officially, but the people continued Roman culture and called themselves Romans. In order to understand the expansion of these empires, let […]
Minoans and Mycenaean-Europe’s First Civilization
This article is a continuation of my previous article, Greek Civilization– Cradle of Europe, and is completely based on the little knowledge I could gather from seeing the great British Museum in London. This article is about the origin of civilization in Europe. I spent the most precious, happiest, and most memorable three days of […]
Mesopotamia -Babylon And Assyrian Cultures
This article is not for history but only based on the knowledge I could gather from the British Museum about Mesopotamia. This civilization has intrigued me since my childhood, and if we plan to travel to Iraq, Iran, or Syria, we will hardly get any remnants of the past. Only Saddam Hussein had taken some interest in recreating the model of Babylon in Iraq.
Mesopotamia- Sumerian And Akkadian Cultures
The hidden treasure of great Mesopotamian Civilization, as narrated and seen from British Museum, London
A Traverse into Ancient Vietnam
Vietnam is not an ordinary country. It is the live example of the series of invasions, unabated unrest, continuous struggle for the identity of independence, unrest and highest degree of agony a country can face. Still they survived. It was an experimental ground to dislodge democracy and communism or vice versa facing the highest amount of bombing on any country since humans invented bombs and explosives. It was reduced to an experimental lab to test the supremacy of one on other.
The shadow still sits on their faces. We can sense it.
