A mysterious script could help solve the mysteries of one of humanity's oldest civilizations. The Indus River Valley civilization site is as important to archaeologists as ancient Mesopotamia and ...

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 ...

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The Harappan civilisation, or Indus Valley Civilisation (IVC), has always fascinated historians for its urban planning and somewhat organised lifestyle and trade, without any known depiction of war or ...

Culture is eventually about people: their cravings and insecurities. Bound by rules of credit and debit, Harappans did not hoard. They shunned conflict, resisted new ideas, feeling safe within walls, ...

The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist, and is ...

The Harappan Civilisation has turned out to be a bit like a 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzle. (Clockwise from top left) A bronze figurine now called Woman Riding Two Brahman Bulls; a bull seal; a yogi seal; ...