More than 18,000 artefacts that have been excavated and documented from Keeladi over eight rounds of excavations ...

In a rare move, the Archaeological Survey of India returned a 982-page excavation report on Keezhadi, seeking revisions from its lead archaeologist. Indologist R. Balakrishnan speaks to Frontline ...

The Archaeological Survey of India has discovered skeletal remains, drainage systems and settlements dating back to the 4,000-year-old Harappan Civilisation at Rakhigarhi located in Haryana.

Despite missing Harappa’s full significance, Cunningham laid the groundwork for future archaeological explorations in India. Later in 1920, Daya Ram Sahni started excavation at Harappa in the ...

called the Indus Valley’s burial customs “distinctly un-Aryan”, showing a “deep-rooted difference in racial and cultural origins”. He concluded that the Mohenjo-daro and Harappa cultures ...

He said both Harappan cities and Keeladi had burial sites outside of the habitation area. “In Harappan cities, the habitation mound and burial sites were clearly separated. The burial sites were ...

Now we know that the beginning of the Harappan culture goes back to 6000 BCE ... We used PPE kits and different tools for each burial. But when we analysed the DNA, surprisingly, we found some ...

But in 2500 BC Harappa, who cast in bronze a servant girl ... certainly from an affluent background, as 40 burial urns were found beside her,” said archaeologist Vasant Shinde, lead author of the 2019 ...

The five sites were the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Dholavira, Ahom monuments in Sivasagar, the multi-cultural of Hastinapur, Rakhigarhi, one of the largest Harappan cities, and Adichanallur a ...

AHMEDABAD, INDIA—Analysis of fatty residues in pottery recovered from a burial in Surkotada, a Harappan site in northwestern India, indicates that people boiled and fried their food, according ...

Harappa, an archaeological site and an ancillary ... These masks, often found in burial sites, suggest a belief in an afterlife and the need to protect or guide the deceased on their journey.