The slow eastward migration of monsoons across the Asian continent initially supported the formation of the Harappan civilization in the Indus valley by allowing production of large agricultural ...

Harappa remains a remarkable chapter in human history, symbolizing innovation, organization, and cultural development.

As per a study of materials found during an excavation in Rajasthan, it has been revealed that Harappan people, during the Harappan civilization around 4000 years ago, used to consume multigrain, high ...

More than 4,000 years ago, the Harappa culture thrived in the Indus River Valley of what is now modern Pakistan and northwestern India, where they built sophisticated cities, invented sewage systems ...

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 ...

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The mysterious fall of the largest of the world's earliest urban civilizations nearly 4,000 years ago in what is now India, Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh now appears to have a key culprit — ancient ...

When archaeologist KN Dikshit was a fresh-faced undergraduate, in 1960, a remarkable discovery pushed back the origin of civilization in the Indus River Valley by some 500 years. Now, he claims to ...

In this episode, we explore the rise of the Harappan Civilisation and the emergence of Iron Age Kingdoms around 600 BCE.

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 ...

Annalee Newitz is the author of “Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age.” But the historical record shows that reports of the end times always turned out to be wrong. “Barbarians” didn’t ...

History loves a good mystery. And honestly, few things are more unsettling than an entire civilization, with millions of ...