For centuries, India’s coastline served as a gateway to international commerce, connecting ancient kingdoms with distant ...

PUNE: Bronze Age traders crossing Gujarat stopped at well-organised roadside facilities that offered shelter, food, security and stables for their pack animals.A new multidisciplinary study by ...

Shereen Ratnagar, a leading archaeologist renowned for her work on the Indus Valley Civilization, passed away in Mumbai at 82 ...

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Shereen Azam s uncompromising courage was apparent in her intervention in the Babri Masjid dispute ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lothal (‘the mound of the dead’ in Gujarati) was discovered under a mound among marshy fields of the Saragwala village thanks to the persistence of a local driver, Baburam Kadam, hired by ...

Smoke from a funeral pyre over 3,700 years ago left behind a trail of charcoal. That faint trace, sealed inside a terracotta sarcophagus buried in Kilnamandi village of Tiruvannamalai district, has ...