In The Country Of Gold-Digging Ants
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Do you think Indian history is boring? Check out what these ancient reporters had to say about our country many centuries ago. ??? In his book, Indika, Megasthenes, a Greek traveller, wrote about giant meat-eating ants that dug for gold in mines somewhere in eastern India! ???
Hiuen Tsang, from China, was witness to an assassination attempt on King Harshavardhana at a religious gathering.
The Venetian Marco Polo described how the people of Kashmir could use charms to change the weather and bring about darkness.
Athanasius Nikitin, from Russia, was amazed by the sultan of Bidar, who went hunting accompanied by 10,000 men on horseback, 50,000 on foot, 200 elephants, 100 dancers, 300 horses, 100 monkeys and 100 concubines!