The Harappan civilisation, or Indus Valley Civilisation (IVC), has always fascinated historians for its urban planning and somewhat organised lifestyle and trade, without any known depiction of war or ...

NEW DELHI (IANS)-Author Devdutt Pattanaik had explained at the time of the launch of his book last year,that he compiled his book, “Ahimsa: 100 Reflections on the Harappan Civilisation,” to make the ...

Harappa has proved to be a hurdle before Hindu nationalists’ Vedic Aryan superiority theory.

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 ...

When people think of ancient civilizations in South Asia, the Harappans often come to mind. But what if signs of human life in the region go back much further than that? In a remote corner of Gujarat, ...

A series of severe, decades-long droughts ushered the end of the Indus Valley Civilization, one of the world's oldest civilizations, a new study finds. This Indus Valley Civilization (also known as ...

Ahmedabad: Four droughts, each lasting from 80 to 160 years, in a span of 1,000 years devastated the Indus Valley Civilization (IVC) or Harappan Civilization and eventually caused its collapse, ...

Thousands of years ago in what is now modern Pakistan and northwestern India, people lived in cities with populations perhaps as high as 35,000. They invented sewage systems before the Romans and ...

The first human migrations out of Africa are thought to have taken place 70,000 years ago. Migrants gradually made their way down India's coast over a few thousand years. The migration was possible ...

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 ...