Delhi in Lothal has brought the Harappan site in the limelight. Take a look at how Lothal is an important archaeological site ...

Reflections on the Harappan Civilisation’ over two years ago, author Devdutt Pattanaik decided to compile it this year. “I ...

Sanghol village excavation happened two years after the 1984 riots in an attempt to dilute the tension. Before that, ...

Female figurine of the Mature Harappan period, 2700–2000 BCE ... the most valuable were the stone seals, “not only because they are inscribed with legends in an unknown pictographic script ...

New research suggests that these markings informed the development of writing Sarah Kuta Daily Correspondent A cylinder seal (left) engraved with symbols that was used to press markings into wet ...

Some of the symbols on these cylinder seals correspond to those used in proto-cuneiform, a form of proto-writing used in Mesopotamia. The finding indicates that the invention of writing in ...

Researchers investigating how the first writing arose identified the motifs on preliterate "cylinder seals" used in the trade of agricultural products and textiles. When you purchase through links ...

Devdutt Pattanaik has acquired the reputation of a scholar who scrutinises religious texts and traditions from a distance, but with compassion and sympathy. His gaze is always secular and critical ...

Harappa, now in Punjab, Pakistan, was partially excavated by British general Alexander Cunningham about 50 years earlier, in 1872-73. He found a seal “smooth black stone without polish.