The fall of the world’s earliest cities has long looked like a riddle of vanished peoples and abandoned streets. A growing body of climate research now points to a simpler, starker driver: water, and ...

Scientists believe they’ve cracked one of the oldest mysteries of a disappearing civilization. The culprit? Climate change. Nearly 5,000 years ago the Harappan or Indus people created a society on the ...

CHANDIGARH, (IANS)- The world’s largest museum of Harappan culture is coming up in Rakhigarhi in Haryana to showcase the 5,000-year-old Indus Valley artifacts. The Archaeological Survey of India is ...

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 ...

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 ...

As per a study of materials found during an excavation in Rajasthan, it has been revealed that Harappan people, during the Harappan civilization around 4000 years ago, used to consume multigrain, high ...

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 ...

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 ...

To attract international tourists, there are plans to build a world-class archaeological museum, a dedicated research ...

Devdutt Pattanaik's book 'Ahimsa' explores the nonviolent culture of the Harappan civilization, emphasizing trade over violence and its geographical diversity. Masalas were first found in Harappan ...