Historian Upinder Singh notes in her work that archaeologist John Marshall named her the “Dancing Girl” because he thought ...

Some ancient relics never cease to pique the interest of modern societies. Sample this: A 4,500-year-old metal figurine, one of the most critical excavations related to the Indus Valley Civilization — ...

Railway workers in Punjab unearthed ancient mounds for building materials. This led to the discovery of Harappa, a ...

The antiquity and decline of the Bronze Age Harappan civilization in the Indus-Ghaggar-Hakra river valleys is an enigma in archaeology. Weakening of the monsoon after ~5 ka BP (and droughts throughout ...

Who Is Asim Munir, Trump’s ‘Favorite Field Marshal’? According to the paper in Nature, many of these early Harappan sites flourished on the Ghaggar-Hakra (mythical Saraswati) River, which flowed from ...

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 ...

The fate of the ancient Indus Valley Civilization has long captivated scholars, yet the precise reasons behind its decline have remained elusive. A recent climate study offers fresh insight, placing ...

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 ...