85 pc conservation work completed at Harappa
The Punjab Archeology Department has completed 85 per cent conservation work at remains of Harappa site according to a story in Pakistan Today.
News about ancient Indus excavations and discoveries.
Nikhil Gulati in Conversation about The People of the Indus
Omar Khan and Nikhil Gulati in conversation about The People of the Indus, the best-selling graphic novel about the ancient Indus civilisation shortly after its release.
Indus Peoples to Australia in 2200 BCE?
However incredible this may seem, there now seems to be good genetic and material evidence that sailors from India arrived in Australia from either Sindh or South India at the height of the ancient Indus civilization. They brought with them some technologies and a type of dog that forever changed Aborigine culture. As principal scientist Irina Pulgach at the Max Planck Institute writes, "Their findings suggest substantial gene flow from India to Australia 4,230 years ago. i.e. during the Holocene and well before European contact.
Happy New Year 2023
As we come to the end - or is it the beginning? have we been here before? - of COVID, we look forward to another full year at Harappa.com.
This includes the complete photographs from the 2nd season at Harappa 1923-24.
Harappa.com Crosses 100,000 Facebook Followers
An 8 year effort that began on Sept. 13, 2008 to publish quality ancient Indus civilization content on Facebook reaches a milestone.
New Evidence Pushes the Origins of Indus Settlements to the 7th Millennium
A new article published in Nature argues that Bhirrana is one of the earliest Harappan sites in India and dates back to the 7th millennium BCE based on radiocarbon dating.
DNA of First Farmers Shows Diversity
Lots if interesting stuff here, including "It had been widely assumed that these first farmers were from a single, genetically homogeneous population."
The Release of Mohenjo Daro
Will the movie Mohenjo Daro open the floodgates of popular interest in the ancient Indus civilization? What do you think?
Twenty-one years into running Harappa.com, the release of Mohenjo Daro is a landmark for interest in the subject (traffic in the last few days has doubled to five thousand people a day).
Ancient Chinese Floods Around 1900 BCE
An interesting story in light of all the speculation about water issues at the same time, roughly 1900 BCE, in the ancient Indus valley. There was possibly a trading relationship with ancient China. Water, too little or too much, must have been a factor in the rise and fall of Bronze Age civilizations.
What controversies surround the Indus Valley Civilisation?
A wide-ranging interview with one of our ancient Indus scholars, author and archaeologist Shereen Ratnagar.