Banerjee, an intrepid explorer and talented epigraphist, worked for the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) when the country ...

Hindu poems called the Rig Veda (from around 1500 BC) describe northern invaders conquering the Indus Valley cities. In the 1940s, archaeologist Mortimer Wheeler discovered 39 human skeletons at ...

CHENNAI: Chief Minister MK Stalin on Wednesday unveiled the statue of Sir John Hubert Marshall -- who announced the discovery of the Indus Valley Civilisation to the world on September 20 ...

This map depicts the geographical span of the Indus Valley Civilization (IVC), showing the location of Rakhigarhi (blue), other significant IVC sites (red), and sites to the north and west from ...

Bronze Age cymbals found in Oman reveal how music united ancient cultures across trade routes, ceremonies, and rituals.

Modern-day populations in India descend from a mixture of peoples living thousands of years ago in South and Central Asia, including the Bronze-Age Indus Valley Civilization, two studies reveal. In ...

HYDERABAD: Renowned historian and researcher Professor Dr. Ghulam Mustafa Shar has revealed that the ancient Indus Valley Civilization site of Mohenjo Daro is not merely 5,500 years old, but it dates ...

The chief minister of Tamil Nadu, a state in India, announced a prize of $1 million for anyone who can decipher the ancient ...

The first human migrations out of Africa are thought to have taken place 70,000 years ago. Migrants gradually made their way down India's coast over a few thousand years. The migration was ...