Some areas may provide archeological values such as ancient Indian village sites or hunting areas, caves, artifacts, etcetera.

The ancient Indian philosophy is a fusion of two ancient traditions: Sramana tradition and Vedic tradition.

While there are ancient relations between the Indian Vedas and the Iranian Avesta, the two main families of the Indo-Iranian philosophical traditions were characterized by fundamental differences in their implications for the human being's position in society and their view on the role of man in the universe.

Boats were used between 4000 BCE and 3000 BCE in Sumer, ancient Egypt and in the Indian Ocean.

In the ancient Indian work the Kama Sutra, light scratching of the breasts with nails and biting with teeth are considered erotic.

According to ancient Chinese, Indian and Javanese manuscripts, western coastal cities of Borneo had become trading ports, part of their trade routes, since the first millennium.

Water is one of the elements in ancient Greek philosophy, in the Asian Indian system Panchamahabhuta, and in the Chinese cosmological and physiological system Wu Xing.

Kinnaras, another half-man half-horse mythical creature from the Indian mythology, appeared in various ancient texts, arts as well as sculptures from all around India.

Cholera likely has its origins in the Indian Subcontinent ; it has been prevalent in the Ganges delta since ancient times.

* 1888 – Richard Wetherill and his brother in-law discover the ancient Indian ruins of Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde.

The problem of the phonetic description of vowels is of long standing, going back to the era of the ancient Indian linguists.

The concept of diplomatic immunity can be found in ancient Indian epics like Ramayana ( between 500 and 301 BC ) and Mahabharata ( around 4th century BC ) where messengers and diplomats were given immunity from capital punishment.

The ancient writings of Chinese and Indian military strategists such as Sun-Tzu and Chanakya contain information on deception and subversion.

However, some have taken the feudalism analogy further, seeing it in places as diverse as ancient Egypt, the Parthian empire, the Indian subcontinent, and the antebellum American South.

Important physical and mathematical traditions also existed in ancient Chinese and Indian sciences.

This is known as the classical period of Indian history, during which time India has sometimes been estimated to have had the largest economy of the ancient and medieval world, with its huge population generating between one fourth and one third of the world's income up to the 18th century.

The Mughal emperors married local royalty, allied themselves with local maharajas, and attempted to fuse their Turko-Persian culture with ancient Indian styles, creating a unique Indo-Saracenic architecture.

Le Clerc Milfort in 1781 led a journey with hundreds of Creek Indians, to a series of caverns near the Red River above the junction of the Mississippi river, according to Milfort the original Creek Indian ancestors are believed to have emerged out to the surface of the earth in ancient times from the caverns.

Persia's position at the crossroads of the East and the West frequently placed it in the midst of developments in both ancient Greek and Indian medicine.

In contrast to Carnatic music, the other main Indian classical music tradition originating from the South, Hindustani music was not only influenced by ancient Hindu musical traditions, historical Vedic philosophy and native Indian sounds but also enriched by the Persian performance practices of the Mughals.

The world's earliest civilizations in Mesopotamia ( beginning with Sumer ), ancient Egypt, and the Indian subcontinent ( beginning with the Indus Valley civilization ), which began along the valleys of the Tigris-Euphrates, Nile and Indus rivers respectively, all developed around the Indian Ocean.

The Indian Ocean is known as Ratnakara in the ancient Sanskrit literature.

The terms are used inconsistently in modern times, which is confusing and may obfuscate an important point, that the rotation of the swastika may have symbolic relevance, although ancient vedic scripts describe the symbolic relevance of clock motion and counter clock motion.

In ancient India it is said that yajna or vedic rituals of chanting manthras and offering were performed by rishis to bring sudden bursts of rain fall in rain starved regions.

Grantha script ( lang = Tamil க ி ர ா ந ் த ௭ழ ு த ் த ு | trans | Tamil Grantha eḻuttu ), is an ancient script that was widely used between the 6th century and the 19th century CE to write classical Manipravalam by Tamil speakers in Southern India and Sanskrit, particularly in Tamil Nadu and Kerala, and is still in restricted use in traditional vedic schools ( veda pāṭhaśālā ).

According to the ancient vedic science of Ayurveda, the three gunas ( sattva, rajas and tamas ) as they pertain to the human physiology are called doshas: kapha, pitta, vata.

The use of Buddhist themes for plays is a very controversial and moot issue and seem to be a later interpolation not existing since ancient times for the latter not being a then-legal vedic system.

A pandit ( Sanskrit: पण ् ड ि त ; paṇḍita or paṇḍit ) is a scholar and a teacher, particularly one skilled in the Sanskrit language, who has mastered the four Vedic scriptures, Hindu rituals, Hindu law, religion, music, and / or philosophy under a Guru in a Gurukul or has been tutored under the ancient vedic Guru Shishya academic tradition.

* Note that most ancient Roman sources are quite critical of Agrippina the Younger, because she was seen as stepping outside the conservative Roman ideals regarding the roles of women in society.

In his account, ancient Athens seems to represent the " perfect society " and Atlantis its opponent, representing the very antithesis of the " perfect " traits described in the Republic.

He believed that the reform of the civil service into a meritocratic system and the disappearance of the ancient Chinese nobility from the bureaucracy constituted a modern society.

Its paradigmatic ethnographic example is the division of Hindu society into rigid social groups, with roots in India's ancient history and persisting until today.

They had a settled hunting and agricultural society, and they rapidly became middlemen in an increasingly frantic fur trade with their ancient enemy, the Minqua or Susquehannock.

He was also unique among the writers of ancient Athens for the sympathy he demonstrated towards all victims of society, including women.

This non-Israelite widow was granted the best covenant blessing in the person of her son, the only hope for a widow in ancient society.

Ancient Egyptian religion was a complex system of polytheistic beliefs and rituals which were an integral part of ancient Egyptian society.

These frescoes depict scenes of the life and society of ancient Greece, and constitute valuable historical testimonials.

The history of Guam involves phases including the early arrival of people known today as the ancient Chamorros, the development of " pre-contact " society, Spanish colonization, and the present American rule of the island.

Belief in spirits of ancient Chamorros called Taotao Mona still persists as remnant of pre-European society.

The Ahnenerbe, a research society founded by Himmler in 1935, conducted research all over the globe to look for proof of the superiority and ancient origins of the Germanic race.

The main modes of production Marx identified generally include primitive communism or tribal society ( a prehistoric stage ), ancient society, feudalism, and capitalism.

The history of Guam involves phases including the early arrival of people known today as the ancient Chamorros, the development of " pre-contact " society, Spanish colonization, and the present American rule of the island.

Although the crusaders came upon an ancient urban society, Ellenblum argues that they neither completely abandoned their rural European lifestyle, nor was European society completely rural to begin with.

Based on their social priorities, British scholars interpreted ancient Greece as a westernized, white, and masculine society, and essentially removed women from historical importance.

** Manusmṛti or The Laws of Manu, an important work of Hindu law and ancient Indian society

In addition to Confucius, another ancient Chinese philosopher of the same period ( that of the Warring States ) advocated a meritocratic system of government and society.

There are two main perspectives on the origins and basis of nationalism, one is the primordialist perspective that describes nationalism as a reflection of the ancient and perceived evolutionary tendency of humans to organize into distinct grouping based on an affinity of birth ; the other is the modernist perspective that describes nationalism as a recent phenomenon that requires the structural conditions of modern society.

There are two major bodies of thought on the causes of nationalism, one is the modernist perspective that describes nationalism as a recent phenomenon that requires the structural conditions of modern society, in order to exist ; the other is the primordialist perspective that describes nationalism as a reflection of the ancient and perceived evolutionary tendency of humans to organize into distinct grouping based on an affinity of birth.

It is a matter of controversy whether and to what extent pankration persisted in Greek and the broader Byzantine society after the ancient Games were discontinued.