Even as 2024 marked 100 years since the discovery of the Indus Valley Civilisation, debates over its origins continue. Over the decades, there have been multiple claims linking the Harappan ...
In the mid-1850s, a few years after the British annexation of the Punjab, some railway builders stumbled upon an ancient mound of terracotta bricks at Harappa in the valley of the Ravi. Despite ...
Four thousand years ago, the sprawling Indus valley civilization dominated the area of modern-day India and Pakistan. Although considered one of the world’s earliest civilizations and the subject of ...
The Indus Valley Civilisation (IVC), also called the Indus Civilisation, was a significant Bronze Age civilisation that flourished in the northwestern regions of South Asia. It thrived between c. 7000 ...
The Tamil Nadu government on Sunday announced that it will offer a prize of $1 million, or Rs 8.5 crore, to any expert or organisation that succeeds in deciphering the script of the Indus Valley ...
Andrew Robinson reflects on the most tantalizing of all the undeciphered scripts — that used in the civilization of the Indus valley in the third millennium bc. The Indus civilization flourished for ...
The climate of South Asia is not kind to ancient DNA. It is hot and it rains. In monsoon season, water seeps into ancient bones in the ground, degrading the old genetic material. So by the time ...
They were one of the most advanced societies during the Bronze Age more than 5,000 years ago. But the ancient Indus people – native to modern-day Pakistan and Northern India – left behind an ancient ...
His work is detailed in books like “The Bhilsa Topes” (1854) and “The Ancient Geography of India” (1871), where he mapped historical sites. His excavation reports in “Archaeological Survey of India ...