Do you know that the Indus civilisation script is so difficult to decode, since the texts are very short and written in an ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Harappan culture flourished about 1800 BC. Afterwards, the culture began to decline. Many mature Harappan sites in regions such Cholistan were abandoned by the 1800 BC. In this article, we are ...

Baghpat: When brick kiln workers stumbled upon human skeletal remains at Chandayan village, some 100 km from Delhi, no one had any inkling that it could be the first ever habitation from the later ...

Dholavira and Lothal two of the best known Harappan sites in Gujarat AHMEDABAD: Dholavira and Lothal two of the best known Harappan sites in Gujarat were perhaps the only major ports of the ancient ...

Vasant Shinde is hunting for DNA. Human DNA. And he hopes to extract it from four nearly-4,500-year-old skeletons that he dug up at Rakhigarhi village in Haryana’s Hisar district this January. Dr ...

A team of archaeological department of Central University of Haryana based in Mahendergarh has found copper vessels, bangles and clay items belonging to the Harappan era from Tigrana village, about ...

One of the things in the about-4,000-year-old Harappan seals is the value placed on trees. There is the peepal tree and the babool (acacia) tree that have been identified. The peepal tree is ...