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Lord Shiva's ‘oldest prayer’ uncovered: Shiv Trilogy author Amish Tripathi shares how a techie decoded a 4,500-year-old Pashupati sealA computer scientist's cryptographic analysis of the Pashupati Seal suggests its inscription is an ancient invocation to Lord Shiva, aligni...
Sindoor Goddesses of India: From Harappa to Hinglaj and Charani womenSindoor, a symbol of auspiciousness for married Indian women, traces its origins back to the Harappan civilization and ancient trade routes...
Pune-based doctor reveals miracle grains that can help reverse diabetes and control sugar spikes. One has been used since the Harappan eraPune-based diabetologist Dr. Pramod Tripathi, founder of the Freedom from Diabetes movement, has listed 10 healthiest grains with a glycemi...
India had its own prime meridian passing through Ujjain: New NCERT textbookIn the new textbook, the river finds a prominent place in a chapter on the "Beginnings of Indian Civilisation", where the Harappan civilisa...
G20 Summit: Civilisational heritage meets cutting-edge technology at 'Mother of Democracy' exhibitionDelegates offices have also been set up in the same hall, and many of them got an opportunity to see the tech-driven exhibition on ancient ...
Does her hand-on-hip sassiness upset you?When Harappan artefacts were officially divided between India and Pakistan after Independence, the Dancing Girl came to India's share while...
Dholavira, Harappan-era city in Gujarat, recognised as UNESCO World Heritage SiteThis is the second site to be included in the world heritage list this month after the Ramappa Temple .
Dholavira, a Harappan-era city in Gujarat, is now an UNESCO World Heritage SiteDholavira, a Harappan-era city in Gujarat, has been conferred the tag of UNESCO World Heritage Site, the organisation said on July 27. This...
Harappan-era city Dholavira inscribed on UNESCO World Heritage ListThe ongoing 44th session of the World Heritage Committee of the UNESCO has already given India a new world heritage site in the form of the...
Gujarat Harappans were first ‘climate refugees’, finds studyA team of scientists from premier institutes of India said the sites may help narrate the story of one of the first climate refugees follow...
View: What science tells us about Hindu majoritarianismGenetic evidence now shows that Hindu majoritarianism is as mistaken on scientific as moral grounds.
Harappan site of Rakhigarhi: DNA study finds no Central Asian trace, junks Aryan invasion theoryResearchers Vasant Shinde and Neeraj Rai said this establishes the fact that knowledge ecosystem in the Vedic era was guided by “fully indi...
ASI unearths ‘first-ever’ evidence of chariots in Copper-Bronze ageThe excavation, which began in March, has also unearthed eight burial sites and several artefacts. The three chariots found in burial pits ...
How archaeologists across the country are unearthing the food of ancestors to shed light on the evolution of eatingThe average Indian’s interest in the archaeology of food was nudged out of its stupor in 2010 when archaeologists discovered the world’s ol...
Coins collection of Vimanika Comics's Karan Vir Arora consists of 300 coinsAn avid numismatist, Karan Vir Arora's collection already has a few rare coins, but his wish list goes on to include Mauryan and Harappan c...
State-of-the-art museum to come up in PanchkulaA state-of-the-art museum will come up at Panchkula in Haryana at a cost of around Rs 30 crore to display significant archeological finding...
Chandayan village in Uttar Pradesh could have possible Harappan link"This is for the first time that a habitation of late Harappan era has been found in UP," said the Superintending Archaeologist of ASI.
4,000-year-old house found at Baghpat village offers rare clue to Harappan habitationThe late Harappan phase pertains to the period starting around 1900-1800 BC when the Indus Valley Civilization, popularly known as the Hara...
5,000-year Harappan stepwell found in Kutch, bigger than Mohenjodaro'sPrecious stones like carnelian were in great demand during the Harappan era. Gujarat was the hub of bead and craft manufacturing industries.
- India was the lynchpin of sea-based trade: Ansari
Vice President M Hamid Ansari today said that India was the lynchpin of sea-based trade and commerce for at least four millennia.