India’s Ganges River shifted abruptly due to a distant yet massive earthquake around 2,500 years ago, new geologic evidence suggests. Such changes have been observed in other rivers in recent times ...
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Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India, sits directly along the banks of the Ganges River with stepped ghats leading into the water. The city combines dense urban buildings with active religious life by the ...
VARANASI, India (RNS) — When Linda Hess took in the view from the bank of the Ganges River recently for the first time in 10 years, she hardly recognized the place she once knew. “When I first came ...
(CNN) — Earthquakes, caused by the shifting of Earth’s tectonic plates, have the potential to transform the face of the world. Now, for the first time, scientists have evidence that earthquakes can ...
Earthquakes, caused by the shifting of Earth’s tectonic plates, have the potential to transform the face of the world. Now, for the first time, scientists have evidence that earthquakes can reroute ...
More than 2,000 years ago, a powerful king built a fort on the banks of India's holiest river, on the fringes of what is now a vast industrial city. Today, little of the ancient construction remains, ...
Between Olympus and the Ganges: How Greece and India Shaped the Modern Mind by Prof. Dr. Amarendra Bhushan Dhiraj. Between Olympus and the Ganges is a sweeping, intellectually ambitious work of ...
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