Evidence from the civilisation also points to an awareness of personal appearance and grooming ...

In the 1920s, when the Harappan civilisation first came into limelight owing to the efforts of the then leading archaeologists of British and Indian origin, it was little expected that the ...

For decades, the dominant explanation for the collapse of the Bronze Age Harappan civilisation centred on climate change: a weakening of the monsoon rains that sustained its great cities. New evidence ...

Despite a large number of archaeological artefacts found from the 1,000 plus settlement sites, the Indus Valley civilisation largely remained a mystery. It was long back in the 1920s, when excavations ...

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The Harappan culture flourished about 1800 BC. Afterwards, the culture began to decline. Many mature Harappan sites in regions such Cholistan were abandoned by the 1800 BC. In this article, we are ...

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 ...

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 ...

AHMEDABAD, INDIA—Analysis of fatty residues in pottery recovered from a burial in Surkotada, a Harappan site in northwestern India, indicates that people boiled and fried their food, according to a ...

THE TRIBUNE, India’s oldest, daily English-language newspaper, was first published on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan), and save for 40 days in the immediate aftermath of Partition, has ...

Excavations have begun at the two Harappan sites of Binjor in Rajasthan, close to the India-Pakistan border, and Rakhigarhi in Haryana. While the Archaeological Survey of India’s Excavation Branch at ...