A remarkable archaeological discovery at the Mallikarjuna Swamy Temple in Srisailam, present-day Andhra Pradesh, has seemingly revealed India’s earliest known epigraphic mention of Halley’s Comet.

The inscription date in the Indian calendar is śaka 1378, dhātr̥ āṣāḍha ba. 11, which reads exactly to Monday, June 28, 1456 CE. According to astronomical data, Halley's comet was seen ...

A rare epigraphical discovery by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) reveals the first Indian inscription referencing Halley's Comet. Found on a Sanskrit copper plate from 1456 CE in ...

Vijayawada: The first Indian epigraphical reference to Halley’s Comet has been discovered in the Srisailam Copper Plate Charter, dated 1456 CE, in Andhra Pradesh. According to the Archaeological ...

Nero’s ancient Rome and Jazz Age New York were similar. That is the message of The Comet/Poppea, an intriguing combination of Monteverdi’s 1643 opera ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Nero’s ancient Rome and Jazz Age New York were similar. That is the message of “The Comet/Poppea,” an intriguing combination of Monteverdi’s 1643 opera “L ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Nero’s ancient Rome and Jazz Age New York were similar. That is the message of “The Comet/Poppea,” an intriguing combination of Monteverdi’s 1643 opera “L ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Nero’s ancient Rome and Jazz Age New York were similar. That is the message of “The Comet/Poppea,” an intriguing combination of Monteverdi’s 1643 opera “L’incoronazione di Poppea” and ...

NEW YORK – Nero's ancient Rome and Jazz Age New York were similar. That is the message of “The Comet/Poppea,” an intriguing combination of Monteverdi’s 1643 opera “L’incoronazione di ...

This photo provided by Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts shows Kearstin Piper Brown, left, as Poppea, and Anthony Roth Costanzo, as Nero, in a scene from "The Comet/Poppea" in the Run AMOC ...