Professor Vasant Shinde said at least four phases of excavations at sites such as Rakhigarhi and Dholavira have revealed that Harappans “taught the whole world how to live in cities”.
In 'Discovering India Anew: Out of Africa to its Early History', Alan Machado (Prabhu) reconstructs the history of Indian peoples from its point of origin in Africa.
The people of Harappan city Dholavira understood the local hydrology and monsoon patterns, using this knowledge to make their city thrive despite heavy rainfall.
A circa 1000 BCE burial in Thailand featuring shell and marble bangles recently gained attention on social media. The tradition of wearing shell bangles is as ancient as the first urbanisation in the Indian subcontinent.
The science used in manufacturing during ancient times have put not just the Harappans but also present-day India on the map as a leading producer of cotton, beads, and copper objects.
In a recent article, author David Frawley claimed that the term Harappan is the product of Western thought pushed by proponents of the Aryan invasion theory.
Discovered at Ahichchhatra in 1944, the grey pottery continues to drive up excavation efforts in Delhi's Purana Qila. Why are archaeologists obsessed with it?
Langhnaj is a unique pre-historic site in north Gujarat where hunter-gatherers of Mesolithic period seem to have shared space and timeline with early food producers.
As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.
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