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, ...

This iron dagger's well-preserved wooden handle may help researchers date artifacts found in Konthagai. Tamil Nadu Department of Archaeology Archaeologists working in the village of Konthagai in ...

Often called the Harappan Civilization, the Indus Valley is one of the most advanced ancient cultures known to mankind. But there’s more—many scholars believe that the Indus Valley was part of a ...

Archaeologist and historian Shereen Ratnagar, a leading scholar of the Indus Valley Civilization, died in Mumbai on Monday ...

There, artefacts, pottery, and human remains were uncovered — all over 9,000 years old. For the field of archaeology, this was a genuine landmark moment, hinting at organized societies existing in ...

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 ...

Shereen Ratnagar was synonymous with Harappan history and specialized in the Indus Valley Civilization, with a focus on its ...

Indiana Jones wannabes, your time has come. A local government in India is offering a $1 million prize to the first person who cracks the code of an ancient script found in the ruins of one of the ...

Cave stalagmite in Himalayas offers most detailed explanation for what led to decline of ancient Indus civilization, study says. Photo from Jed Owen via Unsplash Four thousand years ago, the sprawling ...

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 ...