The civilisation’s previously accepted timeline was around 2600 BC, but using radiocarbon dating on pottery fragments and animal remains they have found at the site, Archaeological Survey of India ...
NEW DELHI (IANS)-Author Devdutt Pattanaik had explained at the time of the launch of his book last year,that he compiled his book, “Ahimsa: 100 Reflections on the Harappan Civilisation,” to make the ...
Thousands of years ago in what is now modern Pakistan and northwestern India, people lived in cities with populations perhaps as high as 35,000. They invented sewage systems before the Romans and ...
In the mid-1850s, a few years after the British annexation of the Punjab, some railway builders stumbled upon an ancient mound of terracotta bricks at Harappa in the valley of the Ravi. Despite ...
A series of severe, decades-long droughts ushered the end of the Indus Valley Civilization, one of the world's oldest civilizations, a new study finds. This Indus Valley Civilization (also known as ...
Ahmedabad: Four droughts, each lasting from 80 to 160 years, in a span of 1,000 years devastated the Indus Valley Civilization (IVC) or Harappan Civilization and eventually caused its collapse, ...
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 ...
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