The stone step pyramid of Djoser, the king of Egypt, at Saqqara, is regarded as the oldest known pyramid in the world. But Praveen Mohan has argued that a terraced monument in Ahichhatra, Uttar Pradesh, India, is the oldest. Dr. Miano looks at the evidence to see if this claim is supported by the archaeological evidence. Find out which pyramid is older, and what the date of the Ahicchatra temple is.
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Image credit: Archaeological Survey of India, Bhuvan Vikrana, Laxshmi Greaves, Wikimedia Commons.
On Ahichhatra:
www.livehistoryindia.com/hist...
On Temple 1:
kalashtsp.in/pdf/issue/vol_no...
On North Indian temple architecture in general:
orca.cf.ac.uk/87038/1/2015Grea...
On art at Ahichhatra:
ijasos.ocerintjournals.org/tr/...
orca.cf.ac.uk/131819/1/ORCA%2...
On ground-penetrating radar at Ahichhatra:
www.researchgate.net/publicat...
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25 янв 2021