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 ...

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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 ...

More than 3000 years ago, the Harappan Civilization was one of the largest and most powerful in the world — and it was brought low by climate change — specifically, monsoons in the area stopped and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...