The mysterious fall of the largest of the world's earliest urban civilizations nearly 4,000 years ago in what is now India, Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh now appears to have a key culprit — ancient ...

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, ...

Archaeology sometimes raises more questions than it answers. How do you explain a city that bustled with activity one day only to be buried under feet of silt the next? Or walls that collapsed in an ...

A recent study in Gujarat's Kachchh region reveals human presence dating back 5,000 years before the Harappan civilization. Researchers discovered shell middens and stone tools, indicating early ...

The author is assistant professor (History) at the Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, Delhi University. It has been roughly more than 100 years, since the discovery of the mighty civilization on the banks ...

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 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 ...