For 150 years, people have tried to decipher mysterious symbols written by an advanced civilization believed to rival ancient ...

"Hinduism was never born; it emerged, evolved, and absorbed." Hinduism is not a book you can open to page one and say, “Here it all began.” It’s a river, vast and deep, carrying whispers of ...

Prasun Chaudhuri spoke to her about her work on the Indus Valley Civilisation script and symbols. Here are excerpts from the interview. Q In the recently concluded Chennai seminar on the Indus Valley ...

From the carefully constructed streets of Indus Valley to Egypt's lofty pyramids, from the heavens' wisdom of the Maya to the ...

The Indus Valley civilisation left no temples or tombs, like the Pyramids of Egypt. There are also no remains of great statues of kings or gods. Instead the Indus Valley’s cultural legacy is of ...

As the Indus Valley Civilisation was part of the Chalcolithic age, i.e., copper, it reflects that the Harappans were not aware of iron. Daya Ram Sahni initiated excavations at Harappa, marking the ...

are considered part of the same vast civilization, the Indus Valley Civilization, which thrived from 2600 to 1900 BCE. Remnants of Harappa's citadel wall, made of mud brick, are still visible ...

But this group argues it was the other way around – that Sanskrit and its relatives originated in the Indus Valley civilization and ... like fish might represent gods. Other researchers, like ...