More than 3000 years ago, the Harappan Civilization was one of the largest and most powerful in the world — and it was brought low by climate change — specifically, monsoons in the area stopped and ...

The mysterious fall of the largest of the world's earliest urban civilizations nearly 4,000 years ago in what is now India, Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh now appears to have a key culprit — ancient ...

Some ancient relics never cease to pique the interest of modern societies. Sample this: A 4,500-year-old metal figurine, one of the most critical excavations related to the Indus Valley Civilization — ...

Archaeology sometimes raises more questions than it answers. How do you explain a city that bustled with activity one day only to be buried under feet of silt the next? Or walls that collapsed in an ...

The Jammu and Kashmir Board of School Education (JKBOSE) has officially released the detailed Class 12 History Syllabus for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...