“europeans have been obsessed with the east’s spiritual depths since alexander the great”

Ancient India gave the world its number system, anticipated Galileo’s heliocentric theory by a millennium and spread its culture from Egypt to Siberia–only to be almost entirely forgotten. It’s past time to restore it to its rightful place in history

The rich cross-cultural exchange between Indian and German thought

The British Imagination: A History of Ideas from ...

A tour of ancient India’s wonders, religious and non-religious

Just 25 years ago, there seemed to be little new to say about the Vikings – and that was particularly the case for Viking women. The centuries-old consensus was that Viking wives and daughters stayed

The celebrity mystics who captivated Europe in the interwar years