CHANDIGARH, (IANS)- The world’s largest museum of Harappan culture is coming up in Rakhigarhi in Haryana to showcase the 5,000-year-old Indus Valley artifacts. The Archaeological Survey of India is ...

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 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 ...

The Harappan culture was one of the world’s earliest urban civilizations. It featured advanced cities, drainage systems, and trade networks. Yet it declined without clear evidence of invasion or war.

The pen might be mightier than a sword but, as Ramesh Chandra Majumdar, one of India’s leading historians of the 20th century, put it in 1970, the spade of the archeologist can be mightier than the ...

Devina Mehra, Chairperson and Managing Director of PMS firm First Global, on Tuesday expressed deep concern over the state of preservation of the ancient site in Rakhigarhi. "This is what we do with ...

The Budget proposal to develop Rakhigarhi, the largest site of the Harappan culture in the Indian subcontinent, into a “vibrant, experiential cultural destination”, was met with scepticism rather than ...

Harappa has proved to be a hurdle before Hindu nationalists’ Vedic Aryan superiority theory.

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s budget announcement on Sunday (February 1, 2026) to develop Hisar’s Rakhigarhi, the largest Harappan site in the Indian sub-continent, into “vibrant, ...

Dholavira: a Harappan city, is one of the very few well preserved urban settlements in South Asia dating from the 3rd to mid-2nd millennium BCE. Being the 6th largest of more than 1,000 Harappan sites ...