The fall of the world’s earliest cities has long looked like a riddle of vanished peoples and abandoned streets. A growing ...

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 ...

Welcome to the first episode of a collaboration with a bunch of History YouTubers: Discovery of India! The Indus Valley Civilization (also known as the Harappan Civilization) popped up around the ...

Culture is eventually about people: their cravings and insecurities. Bound by rules of credit and debit, Harappans did not hoard. They shunned conflict, resisted new ideas, feeling safe within walls, ...

Lothal, located about 30 kilometers inland from the coast of the Gulf of Khambhat in Gujarat, India, was a prosperous port during the Harappan period of the Bronze Age (2600 BCE to 1900 BCE). This ...

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 ...

“From Bengal to Gujarat, we are carrying the same Harappan gene and following the same Harappan culture,” said Vasant Shinde, one of the best known Indus Valley Civilization experts in India. Harappan ...

Many hypotheses have been floated after many, many years of work on what actually led to the collapse of Harappa, the largest Bronze Age Civilization and the earliest urban civilization that India has ...

Taxila, Lahore Fort, Shalamar Gardens (Lahore) and Rohtas Fort in Punjab are on the UNESCO’s World Heritage List but Harappa, the most significant site in the history of the subcontinent, suffers from ...

Harappa has proved to be a hurdle before Hindu nationalists’ Vedic Aryan superiority theory.