A few strange ones here

Strange carvings and burning bodies

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January 23rd 2010
By looking at some of the next photos you may be wondering if we ended up in some weird "adult shop" that deals with stone carvings. But no, we went to a place known as Khajuraho to visit a collection of temples that have been exquisitely carved with all manner of adult themed friezes around the sides. The temples themselves are wonderful feats of architecture, but the friezes, with the detail to ... read more

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The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world, dates back at least 5,000 years. Aryan tribes from the northwest invaded about 1500 B.C.; their merger with the earlier Dravidian inhabitants created the classical Indian culture. Arab in... ... read more