Listen to a Podcast About Ancient India

Discover the Indus Valley civilization, the Maurya and Gupta empires, the birth of Hinduism and Buddhism, Sanskrit literature, and the mathematical and scientific achievements of ancient India.

The Indus Valley civilization (circa 3300-1300 BC), centered at cities like Mohenjo-daro and Harappa in modern Pakistan, featured remarkably advanced urban planning with grid-pattern streets, indoor plumbing, and standardized weights and measures — all predating comparable European infrastructure by millennia. Indian mathematician Aryabhata calculated pi to four decimal places and proposed that Earth rotates on its axis in his 499 AD treatise "Aryabhatiya," and the concept of zero as a number was formalized by Brahmagupta in 628 AD — an innovation without which modern mathematics, computing, and science would be impossible. The Maurya Empire under Ashoka (268-232 BC) ruled over 50-60 million people across most of the Indian subcontinent, and Ashoka's post-war conversion to Buddhism led him to erect rock edicts promoting nonviolence and religious tolerance across his realm.

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