Around 4,000 years ago, one of the world's oldest civilizations emerged: The Indus Valley Civilization, flourishing in what ...

Despite a large number of archaeological artefacts found from the 1,000 plus settlement sites, the Indus Valley civilisation largely remained a mystery. It was long back in the 1920s, when excavations ...

In the 1920s, when the Harappan civilisation first came into limelight owing to the efforts of the then leading archaeologists of British and Indian origin, it was little expected that the ...

The ancient cities of the Indus Valley belonged to the greatest civilization the world may never know. Since the 1920s, dozens of archaeological expeditions have unearthed traces of a 4,500-year-old ...

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday made a reference to Harappan-era seals in her Budget speech, claiming one of them contained the word “sreni”. Social media users soon pointed out that ...

The author is assistant professor (History) at the Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, Delhi University. It has been roughly more than 100 years, since the discovery of the mighty civilization on the banks ...

NEW DELHI: A day after her budget speech where she said Harappan script had been deciphered made her a target of Twitteratis, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, in an interaction with journalists on ...

One question is key to tracing the formation of Indian populations: what language did the Harappans speak? Most historians argue that many languages would have been spoken in the vast region of the ...

This could turn out to be one of the biggest archaeological finds in South India. Dr KM Metry, professor of tribal studies at the Kannada University, Hampi, has found prehistoric paintings on a ...

An expert suggests that the two ancient races Aryan and Dravidians were native of India and none of them came outside of our country. Sharma further strengthens his argument by quoting the DNA ...