Forget the Kohinoor, could we have the Amaravati Stupa sculptures back please? One of the largest stupas in India was dismantled piece by piece and majority of its remains whisked off to Britain.

Vijayawada may be a bustling hub of commerce and culture, but its strategic location on the banks of the Krishna River also ...

1. Explore the Amaravati Stupa Amaravati Stupa, which is also known as Mahachaitya, is one of the iconic historical sites in Amaravati. This relic of an ancient Buddhist monument is from around ...

A note by the Chennai Museum, where there is a separate section for Amaravati sculptures, describes the Amaravati Stupa as poetry in marble.

The Great Shrine of Amaravati or the Amaravati stupa, a ruined Buddhist monument dating back to 3rd Century BCE, was unearthed here by the British.

Remains of the Buddhist stupa in Amaravati. CHENNAI: Tens of thousands of people in the country can reel off details of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa or Michelangelo's David, but, only a minuscule ...

The layered history of Amaravati, which lies on the right bank of the Krishna river, begins more than 2300 years ago around the 2nd century BC.

THIS work is essentially a description of those sculptures and inscriptions of the Amaravati Stupa which are now preserved in the Madras Museum. There are also important slabs in the British ...

Capital Tales They gave up farmland for new Andhra capital. Now they are crippled with uncertainty After the government announced three new capitals instead of one, protests have engulfed Amaravati.

Around 1858 Tripe took this image of sculptures from the ruined Buddhist stupa at Amaravati, which was a large monument built approximately 2000 years ago in what is now Andhra Pradesh. The stupa was ...

A note by the Chennai Museum, where there is a separate section for Amaravati sculptures, describes the Amaravati Stupa as poetry in marble.