Five major regional centres were located on what appears to be a grid with calculated distances separating them: Mohenjo-daro (250 ha, Sindh) on the Indus in the south; Harappa (150 ha ...

Behind the mystorious name is an amazing reality: an almost 5,000-year-old archaeological site, covering an area of 97 hectares. Il was built around 2500 B.C. on the flood plains of the lndus in what ...

Writer and activist Muthalankurichi Kamarasu has been writing about Adichanallur archaeological site for quite some time. Muthalankurichi Kamarasu talks to Kulasegaram Sanchayan about the legal ...

First transmitted in 1957, Sir Mortimer Wheeler describes the results of his excavations of the 4,000 year-old, red brick Indus Valley civilization city of Mohenjo-daro in modern-day Pakistan.

Marshall’s brief, preliminary report was based on the findings of archeologist Daya Ram Sahni’s excavations in Harappa (1921) and Rakhaldas Banerji’s in Mohenjo-Daro (1922) – two sites ...

There were more than 1,400 towns and cities in the Indus Valley. The names Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro were given to the cities in later times. We do not know what the Indus people called their ...

Harappa and Mohenjo-daro, a similarly-planned city situated further south, near the banks of the Indus River, are considered part of the same vast civilization, the Indus Valley Civilization ...

Interestingly, jewellery made of carnelian, lapis lazuli and turquoise possibly exported from Harappa were found ... the more well-known city of Mohenjo Daro in Pakistan. (The ancient civilisation ...

Jewellery from Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro. (Images: Wikimedia Commons; Getty; ASI; MET; British Museum; HT Archives) That’s when ASI archaeologist RD Banerji stumbled upon the ruins of Mohenjo ...

It was a hundred years ago, on September 20, 1924, that the world learnt about the Indus (Harappan) civilisation for the very ...

The first episode looks at identity and the roots of India's famous "unity in diversity". Using all the tools available to the historical detective—from DNA to climate science, oral survivals ...

Terming Pakistan as a land of ancient civilizations, Jamal Shah said Pakistan hosts ancient civilizations including Mehar Garh, Mohenjo-daro, Harappa and Gandhara which left remarkable footprints in ...