Takshashila: World’s Oldest University: The Untold Story Almost Nobody Knows
Long before “campus,” “syllabus,” or “degree” existed as ideas, there was a city on the Indus where students walked for weeks just to sit at a teacher’s feet. Was Takshashila really the world’s first university? This piece looks through the eyes of its ancient chroniclers, its teachers, and the modern historians who’ve argued about it…