From advanced urban planning to sudden decline, learn how the Harappan culture thrived and why it ultimately vanished from ...

Archaeologists in Rajasthan have discovered a 4,500-year-old city connected to the Mahabharata period. The excavation has uncovered evidence spanning five different eras, including the Harappan ...

The Harappan civilization dominated the Indus River valley beginning about five thousand years ago, many of its massive cities sprawling at the edges of rivers that still flow through Pakistan and ...

Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia may be the best known of the first great urban cultures, but the largest was the Indus or Harappan civilization. This culture once extended over more than 386,000 ...

Devdutt Pattanaik's book 'Ahimsa' explores the nonviolent culture of the Harappan civilization, emphasizing trade over violence and its geographical diversity. Masalas were first found in Harappan ...

In its bid to throw more light on the Harappan civilization, the Archaeological Survey of India has started excavating about a dozen sites in Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan and Gujarat. NEW DELHI: In ...

Harappan culture and the truant horse Is this then the end of our story? Not quite. The Mature Harappan culture (after about 2,500 BC) saw extensive brick construction, cultivation and use of rice and ...