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The Ahom Kingdom was a powerful and influential kingdom that ruled over Assam, northeastern India, from 1228 to 1826. It was established by Sukaphaa who was a Tai prince belonging to Mong Mao ...

But now, the vast expanse of the sacred burial ground of the kings and queens of the Ahom kingdom, popularly called maidams, lies desolate, uncared for and abandoned. Well, almost. A band of 20 local ...

Golaghar is situated near Talatal Ghar (the royal palace) in Rangpur, the capital of the Ahom kingdom. The gallery displays different weapons, arms, artillery, armour worn by kings and soldiers, ...

Charaideo was the capital of the Ahom kingdom. Soon after the announcement, Prime Minister Narendra Modi took to X, formerly Twitter, to express his happiness. "A matter of immense joy and pride ...

Assam's Moidams, the mound-burial system of the Ahom dynasty, were inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List on Friday. This brings the number of World Heritage sites in India to 43, placing ...

Lachit Barphukan was a commander in the erstwhile Ahom kingdom and is known for his leadership in the 1671 battle of Saraighat that thwarted an attempt by Mughals to capture Assam. Here are five ...

In a momentous discovery, a group of fishermen found the fourth handheld cannon of Ahom king Gadadhar Singha in a river near the hills in Assam’s Jorhat district, close to the Nagaland border.

Moidams, 700-year-old burial mounds of the Ahom dynasty in Assam, added to UNESCO World Heritage List, marking first cultural site from northeastern state. Moidams, the 700-year-old burial mounds ...

a demand has come up for naming it after the founder of the erstwhile Ahom Kingdom of Assam, Chaolung Siu-ka-pha. In a memorandum to Modi on Monday, a copy of which is available with IANS ...

General Borphukan was a commander in the erstwhile Ahom kingdom and was known for his leadership in the 1671 battle of Saraighat, that thwarted an attempt by the Mughal forces to capture Assam.

Set in the foothills of the Patkai Ranges in eastern Assam, the property contains the royal necropolis of the Tai-Ahom. For 600 years, the Tai-Ahom created moidams (burial mounds) accentuating the ...