The author is assistant professor (History) at the Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, Delhi University. It has been roughly more than 100 years, since the discovery of the mighty civilization on the banks ...

The ancient cities of the Indus Valley belonged to the greatest civilization the world may never know. Since the 1920s, dozens of archaeological expeditions have unearthed traces of a 4,500-year-old ...

There's a lot of debate on whether the Indus valley script is evolved enough to be categorised as 'linguistic'. Nature India traces the history of scientific work regarding this, the latest findings ...

When archaeologist KN Dikshit was a fresh-faced undergraduate, in 1960, a remarkable discovery pushed back the origin of civilization in the Indus River Valley by some 500 years. Now, he claims to ...

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NEW DELHI, (IANS)- Rakhigarhi is famous across the world for remnants of the Harappan civilization. And now, the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) is conducting new excavations in and around the ...

A writing system developed by one of the world’s earliest urban societies has given linguists nothing but grief since it was first discovered on an unintelligible stone seal in the ancient city of ...

The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist, and is ...

The Harappan Civilisation has turned out to be a bit like a 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzle. (Clockwise from top left) A bronze figurine now called Woman Riding Two Brahman Bulls; a bull seal; a yogi seal; ...

LAHORE: Archaeologists and experts from related fields got together at the roundtable conference at the 11th Thaap Conference here on Saturday and discussed the past and present of Harappa. The theme ...