Of the 2,000-odd Harappan sites discovered in India and Pakistan so far, the settlement in Rakhigarhi is the largest, overtaking the more well-known city of Mohenjo Daro in Pakistan. (The ancient ...

India’s history is a vast tapestry woven with diverse cultures, civilizations, and peoples, many of whom predate what we now ...

As the bus hurtles towards Dholavira, scenes from the famed Road to Heaven unfurl. This ribbon of asphalt cuts through the ...

G Kumaresan and team are working on reconstructing the face of an ancient Tamil using a Sangam-age skull. Research indicates ...

Along India's west coast there remain pockets ... from the main Northern and Southern Indian language groups. Harappa was an ancient urban settlement of the Bronze Age, located near the former ...

The names Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro were given to the cities in later times. We do not know what the Indus people called their cities, because nobody has been able to translate their ancient language.

For over a century, experts - linguists, scientists and archaeologists - have tried to crack the Indus script. Theories have ...

To decipher a script, the following subproblems have to be solved in order, Italian philologist Fabio Tamburini wrote in 2023 ...

New research using ancient DNA is rewriting prehistory ... after the decline of an earlier civilisation. This was the Harappan (or Indus Valley) civilisation, which thrived in what is now north ...