Climate data offers clues to what might have happened to people of the Indus River Valley and how that might relate to our own warming world.

Successive major droughts, each lasting longer than 85 years, were likely a key factor in the eventual fall of the Indus ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 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 ...

The Indus Valley Civilization, one of the world's oldest, was a thriving society in what is now Pakistan and northwest India ...

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 ...

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 ...

The ancient city of Dholavira, the southern centre of the Harappan Civilization, is sited on the arid island of Khadir in the State of Gujarat. Occupied between ca. 3000-1500 BCE, the archaeological ...

A photograph of a red slipped ware globular pot placed near the head of the skeleton that yielded ancient DNA. There are lines as well as indentations on the upper right side, just below the rim. The ...