Scientists believe they’ve cracked one of the oldest mysteries of a disappearing civilization. The culprit? Climate change. Nearly 5,000 years ago the Harappan or Indus people created a society on the ...

The culprit behind the mysterious disappearance of one of the most advanced urban civilizations at the time, contemporaries to Mesopotamians and Egyptians, has finally been identified: a series of ...

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 ...

JAISALMER: Red shards glinting in desert sand. A kiln with a central column, long buried. Chert blades and terracotta cakes from a civilisation 4,500 years old. History has stirred beneath the dunes ...

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 ...

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 ...

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When archaeologist KN Dikshit was a fresh-faced undergraduate, in 1960, a remarkable discovery pushed back the origin of civilization in the Indus River Valley by some 500 years. Now, he claims to ...