Let’s take a time machine—no, not back to 1947, but way before that. We’re talking Mohenjo-daro, Taxila, Harappa—those buzzing ancient urban centers where ideas flourished, trade boomed, and the roots ...

It is the newest Harappan city to have been found (by JP ... and the National Museum of Pakistan in Karachi (the Priest-King sculpture can be found here). The drive from Bhuj to Dholavira is ...

Prince William has been quietly taking on more duties to support his father behind palace doors, raising questions about whether the monarch would ever step down to prioritize his health.

The site was first discovered in 1913 when a collection of coins belonging to Samudra Gupta, a renowned king of the Gupta ... at Mitathal substantiate the Harappan practices in urban design ...

The Rakhigarhi Harappan site in Haryana is very close to Agroha ... The Rajputs agreed and became known as Maheshwaris, having been saved by Shiva. Ram, the King of Ayodhya, had two sons, Luv and Kush ...

It’s a Harappan legacy bequeathed to the Indian civilisation ... Neither of them is phallic. When a Chola king or queen died, the body was cremated and the ashes buried beneath a lingam.

K. Stalin expressed his gratitude to John Marshall, the late British archaeologist who headed the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) when Daya Ram Sahni’s excavations in Harappa (1921 ...

The expansion of trade between the Mesopotamian (also known as Sumerian) and Harappan civilisations was expanded by the Sumerian King Sargon after he integrated the independent southern cities into ...

Agha Shahid Ali, (At the Museum, 1990 poem) In Harappan iconography, while the depictions of women have been varied, the male figurines unearthed have not been as diverse. While it is a matter of ...

Masalas were first found in Harappan cities, and were made by grinding ingredients under stone. But the Harappan region has ...

Like Harappa, these were mercantile cities. Toll taxes became important to protect the highways. So, the big symbol of the king at this point was the spoked wheel — the concept of the Chakravartin.

That the “priest-king” appears around the time that “falcon” seals from Oxus appear indicates a shift in the balance of power, a waning of old Harappan systems.