Archaeologists and geographers team to predict locations of ancient Buddhist sites
Geographic modeling reveals 121 possible locations of important Indian texts carved into rock surfaces in third-century B.C.
For archaeologists and historians interested in the ancient politics, religion and language of the Indian subcontinent, two UCLA professors and their student researchers have creatively pinpointed sites that are likely to yield valuable transcriptions of the proclamations of Ashoka, the Buddhist king of northern India’s Mauryan Dynasty who ruled from 304 B.C. to 232 B.C. (more…)