Tag: Indus valley

Remnant of a street in the urban centre of Kalibangan.

Scientists show how Himalayan river system influenced ancient Indus Civilisation

Scientists have found that much of the Indus thrived around an extinct river, challenging ideas about how urbanization in ancient cultures evolved.

/ 2017-12-02
Burial Site Predating Dholavira Excavated In India's Kutch

Burial site predating Dholavira excavated in Gujarat

The excavation at Dhaneti, located about 25 km south of Bhuj in Kutch, has thrown up a major surprise for researchers. Unlike conventional burial sites of Harappan era discovered so far, this mass burial site is not in the vicinity...

/ 2017-03-19
Reconstruction of Dholavira

Tsunami might have destroyed Harappan port town of Dholavira

Port town of Dholavira in Gujarat, the fifth largest Harappan site, might have been destroyed by a massive tsunami, a study by CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) has revealed. Dholavira, the second largest Harappan site located within the present borders...

/ 2016-09-01
indus valley civilization

Indus era at least 8,000 years old; ended because of weaker monsoon

Due to a recent revelation made by scientists from IIT-Kharagpur and Archaeological Survey of India, time has arrived to rewrite history textbooks.

/ 2016-05-29
four Human Skeletons found in Rakhigarhi, Harappan site in Haryana

Evidence Suggests Rakhigarhi Was A Major Harappan Centre

Archaeological findings and scientific data have indicated that Rakhigarhi had been the more important centre of the Indus Valley Civilisation than the townships of Harappa and Mohenjo Daro located in Pakistan. Excavations and the study of the findings have unfolded...

/ 2016-05-24
Lothal - one of the most prominent cities of the ancient Indus valley civilisation

Unearthing the civilisation of Lothal

Around 80 km from Ahmedabad, Lothal speaks volumes of history and tradition

/ 2016-03-17
Indus Valley Script

Computing a Rosetta Stone for the Indus script

How would you solve the world's oldest and most difficult crossword puzzle? Watch this video to learn how one man is approaching this challenge.

/ 2016-01-04
Water Clock

Ghatika Yantra – The Ancient Indian Water Clock

In Ancient India religious practices and beliefs often lead to particular discoveries or inventions. In all the religions that took their birth in India, use to follow some particular times of the day to perform their religious rituals at particular times...

/ 2015-10-29
ancient mesurement

Ancient Indian units of length measurement

An exact value of the unit of length measurement, used in Indus Valley Civilization, has been determined from the precise scale discovered by Ernest Mackay in the 1930-31 season excavation at Mohenjo­-daro, and further correlated with the present day units...

/ 2015-10-08
Bahgwat Gita

Vedic civilisation older than Indus Valley civilisation

The debate on the origins of the Rigveda and Aryans in India is not new. It is not so much a scholarly dispute as much as it is an unending controversy. Recently the University of Delhi’s Sanskrit department has claimed...

/ 2015-10-05