A new study argues the Indus Civilization may have been the most egalitarian society in the ancient world—but scholars are ...

NEW DELHI, (IANS)- Rakhigarhi is famous across the world for remnants of the Harappan civilization. And now, the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) is conducting new excavations in and around the ...

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

Railway workers in Punjab unearthed ancient mounds for building materials. This led to the discovery of Harappa, a ...

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 ...

CHANDIGARH, (IANS)- The world’s largest museum of Harappan culture is coming up in Rakhigarhi in Haryana to showcase the 5,000-year-old Indus Valley artifacts. The Archaeological Survey of India is ...

American historian Audrey Truschke challenged the Ministry of Culture's description of the Harappan Pashupati seal as ...

Ancient DNA evidence reveals that the people of the mysterious and complex Indus Valley Civilization are genetically linked to modern South Asians today. The same gene sequences, drawn from a single ...

Ancient terracotta cart models from Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro redefined urban transport, shaping a lasting South-Asian culture ...

Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. WHY FOLLOW? Update your preferences in Account Settings A Harappan unicorn seal, dated 2400 B.C., from the ancient Indus Valley ...

Dholavira: a Harappan city, is one of the very few well preserved urban settlements in South Asia dating from the 3rd to mid-2nd millennium BCE. Being the 6th largest of more than 1,000 Harappan sites ...