ASI and NMA need a new avatar to conserve and protect India's monumentsIndia needs a stronger protection and preservation strategy for its more than 100,000 monuments, of which only 3,695 have "national importa...
05 May, 2023, 11.41 PM IST
View: The Harappan metropolis of Dholavira is a precious piece of heritage now recognised by UNESCOThese pillar members were also exported to distant Mohenjo-daro and Harappa, probably through a navigable Rann and upstream the Indus River...
30 Jul, 2021, 11.19 PM IST
IIT Kharagpur study reveals, decline of Harappan city Dholavira was caused by drying up of river and droughtThese researchers have for the first time connected the decline of Harappan city Dholavira to the disappearance of a Himalayan snow-fed riv...
02 Jan, 2020, 12.08 PM IST
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...
25 Nov, 2019, 11.36 AM IST
In a first, ancient couple found in Harappan graveExperts infer from the way the two were buried that the Harappan people believed in life after death.
09 Jan, 2019, 01.20 PM IST
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...
13 Jun, 2018, 12.24 PM IST
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 ...
06 Jun, 2018, 12.16 PM IST
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...
09 Apr, 2017, 12.07 AM IST
Renaming Indus Valley Civilisation will be correcting history: Haryana MinisterDiscarding suggestions that renaming the Indus valley civilisation reeked of "saffronisation", Vij said "We are not rewriting history but c...
02 Mar, 2017, 09.18 PM IST
Indus Valley Civilization 8,000 years old, not 5,500; ended because of weaker monsoonThe discovery, published in the prestigious 'Nature' journal on May 25, may force a global rethink on the timelines of the so-called 'cradl...
29 May, 2016, 11.25 AM IST
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...
13 May, 2015, 10.46 PM IST
With BJP in power, the hunt for Saraswati river is on mission modeThe Modi government will set up a similar panel. Congress-led UPA had scrapped the Vajpayee government’s Saraswati project in 2004.
10 Apr, 2015, 12.42 PM IST
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.
12 Jan, 2015, 11.25 AM IST
Gujarat government plans airport at Dholavira in Kutch: Tourism MinisterThe district is currently hosting the 'Rann Festival' (desert festival) which was inaugurated at Dhordo village yesterday by Chief Minister...
08 Dec, 2014, 06.04 PM IST
Crown found off Harappan site in Uttar PradeshThe accidental discovery of a human skeleton wearing a copper crow has generated curiosity in Chandayan village of Baghpat district.
08 Aug, 2014, 04.19 PM IST
- Indus Valley site ravaged by floods
The site of Jognakhera was submerged under nearly 10ft of water from Sutlej-Yamuna Link Canal breach.
11 Jul, 2010, 06.22 AM IST
- Gujarat built world's first naval dockyard
About 75 km from here lies a landmark of Indian maritime history. Archaeologists believe the first tidal dockyard in the world was built in...
25 Feb, 2010, 12.08 PM IST