Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Harvard University, 2007. Optical disc (CD-ROM) in pocket contains PDFs of appendices A-F. 1. Introduction. 1.a. The Harappan terracotta figurines ...

Some ancient relics never cease to pique the interest of modern societies. Sample this: A 4,500-year-old metal figurine, one of the most critical excavations related to the Indus Valley Civilization — ...

Archaeologist and historian Shereen Ratnagar, a leading scholar of the Indus Valley Civilization, died in Mumbai on Monday ...

Shereen Ratnagar was synonymous with Harappan history and specialized in the Indus Valley Civilization, with a focus on its ...

Cave stalagmite in Himalayas offers most detailed explanation for what led to decline of ancient Indus civilization, study says. Photo from Jed Owen via Unsplash Four thousand years ago, the sprawling ...

In the mid-1850s, a few years after the British annexation of the Punjab, some railway builders stumbled upon an ancient mound of terracotta bricks at Harappa in the valley of the Ravi. Despite ...

The Indus civilization is one of the great mysteries of the ancient world. An urban society, it was made up of hundreds of cities and towns that stretched across what are today northern India and ...

Harappa was one of the large cities created by the Indus Valley civilization. Smn121 via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0 What happened to the Indus Valley civilization? The culture, also known as ...