DID YOU KNOW, almost 2000 years ago, in the throbbing, business city of Pompeii, someone rich, possessed an ivory statuette of an Indian origin. After Pompeii and Herculaneum, its twin city, were destroyed in 79 AD due to the eruption of mount Vesuvius, that statuette was buried and lost. Only in 1938 was it dug out again, and since then has kept historians guessing. An image of a hybrid between the Roman Goddess 'Venus' and the Hindu Goddess 'Lakshmi' began to emerge. Or perhaps it was the mystical spirit 'Yakshi'... Now famously called the "Pompeii Lakshmi", this points to the thriving trade and cultural relations ancient India had with the western civilizations. This and much more in the book, Time Travel: To the Edge of History
After Pompeii and Herculaneum, its twin city, were destroyed in 79 AD due to the eruption of mount Vesuvius, that statuette was buried and lost.
Only in 1938 was it dug out again, and since then has kept historians guessing. An image of a hybrid between the Roman Goddess 'Venus' and the Hindu Goddess 'Lakshmi' began to emerge. Or perhaps it was the mystical spirit 'Yakshi'...
Now famously called the "Pompeii Lakshmi", this points to the thriving trade and cultural relations ancient India had with the western civilizations.
This and much more in the book, Time Travel: To the Edge of History