Nearly 5,000-year-old skeletons discovered at Rakhigarhi in Haryana, the largest known Harappan civilisation site, have been sent by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) for scientific examination ...

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 ...

When people think of ancient civilizations in South Asia, the Harappans often come to mind. But what if signs of human life in the region go back much further than that? In a remote corner of Gujarat, ...

We didn’t stumble upon one of the world’s oldest urban civilisations with a grand expedition. It started with a modern infrastructure project and a giant pile of old bricks. In the mid-19th century, ...