While its walls are adorned with intricate carvings of gods and goddesses, reflecting the artistic mastery of the Ahom dynasty, the temple is now suffering from the intrusion of trees and creepers ...

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 ...

Assam’s Ahom people, long known to be descendants of migrants from ... over 800 years ago. They established a dynasty that reigned in present-day Assam for nearly 600 years, from AD 1228 to AD 1826.

The mound-burial system of the Ahom dynasty in Assam -- 'Moidams' -- was on Friday included in the UNESCO World Heritage List, making it the first cultural property from the Northeast to get the ...