Archaeologists, a cancer specialist, an aerospace engineer among those who will present their findings. While a few of the ...

For centuries, decipherment of the Indus script was considered to be one of the most challenging themes but now it seems there is a breakthrough insight decoded by a passionate and exceptionally ...

An international conference at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts is coming to grips with the oldest mystery in ...

Over the years, a number of conflicting claims have been made about the script and the language it might have represented.

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 ...

The slow eastward migration of monsoons across the Asian continent initially supported the formation of the Harappan civilization in the Indus valley by allowing production of large agricultural ...

4,000 years old. Thousands of seals. And still… not a single word understood. The Harappan script remains history’s great mystery — short inscriptions, no Rosetta Stone, and no clue about the language ...

The Harappan civilization dominated the Indus River valley beginning about five thousand years ago, many of its massive cities sprawling at the edges of rivers that still flow through Pakistan and ...

Scientists believe they’ve cracked one of the oldest mysteries of a disappearing civilization. The culprit? Climate change. Nearly 5,000 years ago the Harappan or Indus people created a society on 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 ...

Devdutt Pattanaik's book 'Ahimsa' explores the nonviolent culture of the Harappan civilization, emphasizing trade over violence and its geographical diversity. Masalas were first found in Harappan ...