When people think of ancient civilizations in South Asia, the Harappans often come to mind. But what if signs of human life ...

NEW DELHI (IANS)-Author Devdutt Pattanaik had explained at the time of the launch of his book last year,that he compiled his book, “Ahimsa: 100 Reflections on the Harappan Civilisation,” to make the ...

Harappan Civilization, independent origins and a shared fate Part of what makes the Indus story so compelling is that it developed largely on its own terms. The Indus Valley Civilization is popularly ...

A series of severe, decades-long droughts ushered the end of the Indus Valley Civilization, one of the world's oldest civilizations, a new study finds. This Indus Valley Civilization (also known as ...

Harappa has proved to be a hurdle before Hindu nationalists’ Vedic Aryan superiority theory.

Archaeology often unfolds slowly, with discoveries taking years to fully understand. But when Indian oceanographers explored the Gulf of Khambhat in late 2000, they stumbled upon something ...

In the mid-1850s, a few years after the British annexation of the Punjab, some railway builders stumbled upon an ancient mound of terracotta bricks at Harappa in the valley of the Ravi. Despite ...

A new study of drill bits and workshop debris from Harappan sites in Gujarat has solved one of South Asian archaeology’s long-standing puzzles: the origin of Ernestite, the hard, mottled stone used to ...