Among the large number of artefacts recovered from Harappa, masks hold importance as cultural and symbolic pieces, giving an insight into the social, religious, and artistic life in one of the ...

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.

In this book, he concluded that the religious belief of the Harappan people—as emerging from archaeological evidence—was distinctly different from the Vedic culture of the Indo-Aryans.

Archaeological evidence from sites like Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro suggests the presence of religious practices, symbols, and deities resembling those found in later Hindu traditions. The Vedic ...

“The opponents of Aryans were Harappan tribes such as the Asuras, the Rakshas, the Yakshas, and the Pisachas…When the Aryans created a religion out of these events, they deified their leaders ...

THE Harappan Civilisation ... to political ideologies that derive their strength from some form of ethnic or religious identity and like to believe that their nations are pure rather than mixed”.

Analysis: climate change in the shape of two major droughts brought an end to the the world's largest civilisation 4,250 years ago, the Harappan civilisation in the Indus Valley battled against a ...

Climate change was probably not the sole cause for the collapse of the Harappan civilisation in the Indus-Ghaggar-Hakra river valleys, say Indian scientists in a breakthrough study, highlighting ...