Gupta

The Gupta where a member of India, there main religion hat of buddhism, like many other empires of the time. To the left is a bust of the Buddha, his stretched ears symbolizing that of which he gave up to become a monk.

The specialty of the Gupta was their skill in architecture. Building caves from the sides of mountains, the Gupta showed off their abilities with there carved archways, and elaborately crafted windows etched into the rock, these caves where a way to build without support of scaffolding.  

Inside these mountian caves archeologists have discovered carvings of the hindu religion. Some are extravagant dipictions of their Gods, others showed the Buddist beleif of Nirvana. To the left siad picuter is of there leader turned god, Buddha; the lotus flowers being held up in his hands are a symbol often used in artifacts of Buddist heritage.

As well as the sighting of Buddhist artifacts in these caves, there a well good amount of Hindu culture assimilated into the group. Despite the vast growth of Buddhism through the Gupta era, many monarchs adamantly spread Hindu beliefs throughout their reign, this forced use of the religion causing many artifacts found to have Hindu's gods in them. For example to the left, there is a carving of the god Krishna, defeating the demon Keishi.

One of the Guptas other architectural masterpieces where there temples. With advanced technological skills in both building as well as in there sculptures, these temples are still admired today. 

A popular trend around central Asia, was the construction of temples to the god Shiva. Within the confines of these temples, a plethora of carvings and statues can be found. The Guptas contribution to these temples is a cave, one of the most famous carvings found inside being that of the Eternal Shiva, one of the great masters of yoga. 

Along with there mastery in architecture, the Guptas craftsmanship skills came in handy with the minting of coins. Using their eye for detail, the Gupta used materials such as gold to construct the coins before then stamping on elaborate usuals of there rulers. Tot eh left the gold coin is stamped with the image of Kumargupta I  (415-455 CE).

A statue of the buddha, shows the simple forthcomings of the god, the gold its made out of showing of Guptas skills.

To the left is a picture of tools; the of ten forgotten about artifacts infact show just how savy the Gupta where with techknolwgy. There advanced carving tools used to create there caves, scutptures, etc., in looking at these tools we get insite into advancments of the Guptas.