Even for a civilisation as advanced as the Harappan, a second drought was perhaps one too many. A two-pronged climate catastrophe may be what drove the ancient society to disperse and eventually ...

Discover 25 ancient technologies from vanished empires you won't believe. From advanced astronomy to synthetic pigments, ...

Archaeology sometimes raises more questions than it answers. How do you explain a city that bustled with activity one day only to be buried under feet of silt the next? Or walls that collapsed in an ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Climate change is not just a modern dilemma; it’s a force that has reshaped the trajectory of human history time and again. From ...

The civilisation’s previously accepted timeline was around 2600 BC, but using radiocarbon dating on pottery fragments and animal remains they have found at the site, Archaeological Survey of India and ...