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Art and Culture with Devdutt Pattanaik | When India first smelted iron
November 11, 2025 12:50 pm
Is it possible that the global Iron Age started in India? Why did the Copper Age and the Bronze Age appear first in human history, and only later the Iron Age? Were the Aryans drawn to India by the prospect of trading for iron?
The mystery of the Indus script: Dravidian, Sanskrit or not a language at all?
February 07, 2024 10:11 am
For more than a century now, over one hundred attempts have been made by scholars from different fields to decode the Indus script, without much success. The many theories include those that link the language to Sanskrit, Dravidian, Mesopotamian, Egyptian among others. There are also those that are skeptical about whether the Indus script is in any one language at all.
At a Kutch Harappan graveyard, team works to unlock a mystery: Life and times of those buried
May 23, 2023 10:24 am
The burial site, spread over 16 hectares in a Kutch village, is considered to be the largest pre-urban Harappan cemetery
Harappans would have scoffed at modern advocates of vegetarianism
February 25, 2020 11:00 am
The animals that Harappans kept and consumed is rather well known. What is less known is the range of wild animals enjoyed by them and the fact that these contributed greatly to their diet.
Haryana finds 2,000-year-old ‘very potential’ site of Kushan era
February 01, 2020 2:52 pm
The site is located near Kunal village, which is billed as biggest archaeological site in Haryana.
Love, actually
January 11, 2019 9:44 am
The first double burial of a man and a woman has been found at a Harappan site. But were they man and wife?
What a Harappan grave says about marriage
January 10, 2019 6:41 am
Of the 62 graves discovered in Rakhigarhi, only this one had more than one skeleton — and of individuals of the opposite sex, together.
Haryana Archaeologists Discover: ‘Bones from cooked meat found at Harappan site’
May 27, 2017 4:14 am
Sumita Mishra, principal secretary, Haryana Archaeology and Museums Department, said they have decided to send three types of samples — soil, bones and charcoal — from the site for testing.
Writings on the wall
July 20, 2014 1:07 am
Subtle variations of the Indus script are found across major sites, says a recent study.
Indus script designed with care,say TIFR researchers
March 18, 2012 3:23 am
An identical script was widely used across an area of about a million square km,indicating that a lot of planning and thought went into its design
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