Chandragupta Maurya (340 to 290 B.C.) was an eminent king of the Gupta dynasty in India who established the Mauryan Empire from 321 to 185 B.C. Chandragupta is considered the first unifier of India and its first genuine emperor. He was guarded by a band of women on horseback.
There are coincidences that one cannot easily believe in. It makes one wonder if it’s even natural. One such event concerns the wreck of Titanic, the biggest of Britain’s royal mail ships. 105 years ago, RMS Titanic sank on this day – the 14th of April – on her very first voyage! American writer Morgan…
The year was 1940. Germany had made its way into France and occupied almost half the country. Paris, the capital city and the home of the Eiffel Tower, too, was now under Germany’s control. Hoping to put the German tyrant through misery, the French cut the cables to the Eiffel Tower. They believed Hitler would want to reach…
The people of the Sindh province of current-day Pakistan were the ones who coined the name ‘Mohenjo-Daro’. The name, in Sindhi, means ‘the mound of the dead’. Mohenjo-Daro, the 5000-year-old ‘modern’ city, of the Indus Valley Civilization, was discovered by Indian archaeologist Rakhaldas Bandyopadhyay, better known as R.D. Banerji. While working in the Sindh province,…
The Uparkot fort in Junagadh, Gujarat, is one of the most unique forts in India. And it has its reasons. The Uparkot fort was built by Chandragupta Maurya in the year 319 BCE. The Mauryan Empire declined in 184 BCE, and the fort changed hands. It remained under possession till 6th century CE, and was lost into oblivion for the next…
Minerals are naturally occurring inorganic substances that have specific chemical compositions and physical properties of their own. They are solid in nature and have definite crystalline structures, and are an outcome of geological processes. They can be formed by cooling of hot melting material, evaporation, or by precipitation. Their composition ranges from pure elements to complex silicates….
