One of the world’s ancient societies, the Harappan or Indus civilization, was wiped out by natural climate change and a slow decline of the monsoon cycle.

The ancient city of Dholavira, the southern centre of the Harappan Civilization, is sited on the arid island of Khadir in the State of Gujarat. Occupied between ca. 3000-1500 BCE, the archaeological ...

Harappa, now in Punjab, Pakistan, was partially excavated by British general Alexander Cunningham about 50 years earlier, in 1872-73. He found a seal “smooth black stone without polish.

The Harappan Civilisation, also known as the Indus Valley Civilisation, is one of the most important topics for the UPSC Civil Services Examination (CSE) syllabus. Candidates who are preparing for ...

Lothal, located about 30 kilometers inland from the coast of the Gulf of Khambhat in Gujarat, India, was a prosperous port during the Harappan period of the Bronze Age (2600 BCE to 1900 BCE). This ...

With ten letters, the world’s first signboard would glow in the dark and gleam due to white gypsum, he added in his session titled ‘Art in the Harappan Civilisation.’ ...

However, the trio Farmer, Sproat, and Witzel contended the study findings of Rao et al, pointing out that the latter did not compare the Harappan symbols with “real-world non-linguistic systems ...

Books News:Study on Harappan world. This account of the Harappa civilisation presents, in 11 somewhat repetitive chapters, a history of discovery, environment, prehistoric background, the ...

Harappan site Lothal, which is believed to be the world's first naval dockyard located 80-km from Ahmedabad, has fallen into disrepair around six decades after archaeologist S R Rao had excavated it.