William Dalrymple
Scottish historian & art historian; @EmpirePodUK podcaster& Jaipur Literature Festival co-director; Mehrauli goatherd & kabooter baz. Writes the occasional book
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New @EmpirePodUK drop: Thus Spoke Zarathustra- How Persian Religion Changed the World https://t.co/gEHgSFE7ZV https://t.co/OANv4PXxxv
"Anyone who wants to foil the establishment of a Palestinian state needs to support the strengthening of Hamas and the transfer of funds to Hamas.β (Prime Minister Benjamin Netanya...
Worth remembering this telling 1969 quote from Moshe Dayan this week as leaks indicate that Netanyahu, Ben Gvir and their extreme far right wing government are drawing up plans to...
Just back from New York where I spent the weekend making a deep dive into the utterly wondrous new show of early Buddhist art @metmuseum, Tree & Serpent https://t.co/8SXC6MViHP
The Catacombs of Ancient Alexandria In the backstreets of Alexandria a low-roofed roundhouse gives onto a circular flight of stairs. The shaft corkscrews downwards for turn after...
Nalanda, the greatest centre of learning in ancient India. https://t.co/ukwUDKJK2B
From the first century A.D through to early Byzantine period, it was the custom in Egypt to bury those who could afford it in mummies onto which were bound superb encaustic portrai...
The Khmer temple, tomb, observatory, dynastic funeral chapel and national shrine now known as Angkor Wat was, and remains, the largest Hindu temple complex in the world, dwarfing t...
The Dawn of History in Southeast Asia This inscription is arguably the oldest written document is the history of Southeast Asia and intriguingly, it starts with what seems to be a...
Borobudur, begun around 825, is the quite simply the largest Buddhist temple in the world. It is decorated with around 500 statues of Lord Buddha, arranged in terraces of decreasi...
Indian deities in Khmer form Masterpieces of Cambodian sculpture 8th-11thC Now in the Guimet https://t.co/t3xvez9ZGD
An image of Balarama as Samkarshana & Vasudeva-Krishna with a chakra & conch shell. From a silver drachma of the Graeco-Bactrian King Agathocles (190-180 BCE). According to Suchand...