The Harappan civilization dominated the Indus River valley beginning about five thousand years ago, many of its massive cities sprawling at the edges of rivers that still flow through Pakistan and ...

Welcome to the first episode of a collaboration with a bunch of History YouTubers: Discovery of India! The Indus Valley Civilization (also known as the Harappan Civilization) popped up around the ...

The discovery of 5,300-year-old settlement in Gujarat's Lakhapar village indicates cultural interactions, not only with ...

Harappan cities and towns had some common features. Some had a separate area where large buildings were built on raised brick platforms, with the whole area surrounded by a massive brick wall.

Major cities are flooded, low-lying settlements are submerged, and landslides result in casualties. Expanding city limits by occupying natural habitats and river floodplains exacerbates the situation.

The Harappan had two storey houses, grid cities, indoor plumbing and even bath toys millennia before Europe. But the civilisation fell into decay by 3,900 years ago with evidence of a major, ...

Were Harappan cities much advanced than the modern cities of India? Yes, says Michel Danino, guest professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar.

The cities died out, the writing was lost, trade halted and the Harappan civilization was no more. The team also believes that they have solved another mystery, the fate of the mythical river the ...

This means the Aryans came after Harappan cities had collapsed. They did not invade Harappa, but many Aryan men, who came in waves, over centuries, certainly did migrate and marry Harappan women.

The Harappan civilisation thrived in the Indus Valley 4,500 years ago, roughly around the time the pyramids were being built in Egypt. It is famous for its grid-like cities.