by Aseem Gupta | Feb 6, 2016 | History, Empires & Civilizations
Reading Time: 33 MinutesNew Zealand is among the last major landmasses on Earth to have been settled by humans. While civilisations had flourished across Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas for thousands of years, the islands of New Zealand remained beyond the...
by Aseem Gupta | Feb 6, 2016 | Biography, Lives & Historical Figures
Reading Time: 26 MinutesOn the ninth day of the fourth lunar month in 752, an extraordinary gathering assembled at Tōdai-ji in Nara, the imperial capital of Japan. Monks, aristocrats, officials, musicians, dancers and foreign dignitaries had come to witness the...
by Aseem Gupta | Feb 5, 2016 | History, Empires & Civilizations
Reading Time: 26 MinutesIn the early eleventh century, a powerful South Indian ruler sent an armed expedition across the Bay of Bengal to attack some of Southeast Asia’s most important commercial centres. The campaign struck territories associated with...
by Aseem Gupta | Feb 4, 2016 | History, Empires & Civilizations
Reading Time: 36 MinutesMore than four thousand years ago, people living across northwestern South Asia built cities with carefully planned streets, brick-lined drains, hundreds of wells, enormous water reservoirs, and workshops producing goods for markets thousands...
by Aseem Gupta | Feb 2, 2016 | Biography, Lives & Historical Figures
Reading Time: 22 MinutesOn 27 June 2007, Ashraf Marwan fell to his death from the balcony of his luxury apartment in central London. He was 63 years old, enormously wealthy, and connected to some of the most powerful figures in the Middle East. He had also been...
