Remains of Brahmanical Sites and Artefacts Of the three Historical Parks situated not far from each other, Sukhothai, Kamphaeng Phet and Si Satchanalai have been declared Heritage Park have Brahmanical sites and the Brahmanical artefacts discovered from areas around them which are now housed in the Museums there and the National Museum, Bangkok. As many as fourteen images of Hindu gods like […]
The Battle of the Ten Kings: A Historic Battel Between a Bharata King and a Confederation of Tribes
The Battle of the Ten Kings, also known as The Battle of the Ten Kāṣṭhīs, was fought between King Pṛthu and a confederation of tribes at the Sarasvatī River in northern India. The battle was narrated in detail in the epic Mahābhārata, which refers to this conflict as the Āraṇyaka Parva (the Book of Forest-Dwellers). The tribal confederation that opposed King Pṛthu […]
The Importance of History: Why Everyone Should Know World History
It’s easy to look at world history as boring or irrelevant to today’s global society, but this isn’t the case at all. Learning about our past allows us to see how the present was created and how it might be changing in the future. The study of history can also help us gain a better understanding of how we’ve gotten to where […]
The History of BCE and CE: How Two Simple Letters Changed the Way We View Time
In the Latin alphabet, BC (Before Christ) and AD (Anno Domini, Latin for in the year of the Lord) have been used to mark time since roughly the 4th century C.E., but in many ways, these terms are more about religion than history. In fact, an organization called the International Commission on Civil Status recommended replacing BC and AD with two new […]
