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 ...

Scientists once believed that a long-dried-up river in the Himalayas served as the main water source for the Indus Valley Civilization, also known as the Harappan Civilization, which existed from 5300 ...

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 ...

Scientists have sequenced the genome of an individual that lived four to five millennia ago and was part of the Harappan civilization, which is also referred to as the Indus Valley Civilization (IVC).

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 ...

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 ...

Even for a civilisation as advanced as the Harappan, a second drought was perhaps one too many. A two-pronged climate catastrophe may be what drove the ancient society to disperse and eventually ...

India’s history is undeniably ancient, with the Indus Valley Civilization, Vedic period, and later empires forming the ...

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 ...