One question is key to tracing the formation of Indian populations: what language did the Harappans speak? Most historians argue that many languages would have been spoken in the vast region of the ...

In the 1920s, when the Harappan civilisation first came into limelight owing to the efforts of the then leading archaeologists of British and Indian origin, it was little expected that the ...

NEW DELHI: A day after her budget speech where she said Harappan script had been deciphered made her a target of Twitteratis, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, in an interaction with journalists on ...

LAHORE: Archaeologists and experts from related fields got together at the roundtable conference at the 11th Thaap Conference here on Saturday and discussed the past and present of Harappa. The theme ...

The ancient cities of the Indus Valley belonged to the greatest civilization the world may never know. Since the 1920s, dozens of archaeological expeditions have unearthed traces of a 4,500-year-old ...

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 ...

Is this then the end of our story? Not quite. The Mature Harappan culture (after about 2,500 BC) saw extensive brick construction, cultivation and use of rice and cotton, use of silver and of fixed ...

SAHIWAL: The two-day literary conference on Harappa ended with a stage play, titled Mayawati and folk dance and singing performances. Students from various educational institutions performed the ...