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

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Masalas were first found in Harappan cities, and were made by grinding ingredients under stone. But the Harappan region has no stones. “One scholar figured out that the stones would come from ...

Culture is eventually about people: their cravings and insecurities. Bound by rules of credit and debit, Harappans did not hoard. They shunned conflict, resisted new ideas, feeling safe within walls, ...

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 ...

Harappan cities thrived between 2500 BCE and 1900 BCE. The Vedic culture thrived between 1000 BCE and 500 BCE. Almost 1,000 years apart, the two cultures reveal two different worlds for women. When we ...

The Harappan culture, also known as the Indus Valley Civilization, built advanced cities such as Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro with drainage systems, baked bricks, trade networks, bronze work, and large ...

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 ...

“The people of Indus Valley Civilisation never disappeared. They are living. They slowly migrated, not at one stretch, towards east and south. We have to trace where they have gone,” said K. Amarnath ...

Archaeology offers something increasingly rare in combating global water crisis—a long-term perspective on how human ...