The Harappan Civilization built some of the most advanced cities of the ancient world. They had sanitation systems, organized streets, and vast trade networks. Then, their society faded away, leaving ...

Even for a civilisation as advanced as the Harappan, a second drought was perhaps one too many. A two-pronged climate catastrophe may be what drove the ancient society to disperse and eventually ...

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 series of severe, decades-long droughts ushered the end of the Indus Valley Civilization, one of the world's oldest civilizations, a new study finds. This Indus Valley Civilization (also known as ...

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

Ahmedabad: Four droughts, each lasting from 80 to 160 years, in a span of 1,000 years devastated the Indus Valley Civilization (IVC) or Harappan Civilization and eventually caused its collapse, ...

5 Best Books On Indian History To Explore In 2026 Elementary level of historical awareness is superficial at the best and ...

Archaeology sometimes raises more questions than it answers. How do you explain a city that bustled with activity one day only to be buried under feet of silt the next? Or walls that collapsed in an ...