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 ...

Harappan Civilization also known as Indus Valley Civilization, is believed to have flourished around 3,000 BC, in the western part of South Asia, now in contemporary Pakistan and Western India. 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 ...

“From Bengal to Gujarat, we are carrying the same Harappan gene and following the same Harappan culture,” said Vasant Shinde, one of the best known Indus Valley Civilization experts in India. Harappan ...

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 ...

Analysis: climate change in the shape of two major droughts brought an end to the the world's largest civilisation 4,250 years ago, the Harappan civilisation in the Indus Valley battled against a ...

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 new study found evidence that climate change likely drove the Harappans to resettle far away from the floodplains of the Indus. More than 4,000 years ago, the Harappa culture thrived in the Indus ...

The ancient cities of the Indus Valley belonged to the greatest civilization the world may never know. Since the 1920s, dozens of archaeological expeditions have unearthed traces of a 4,500-year-old ...