India’s ancient history is like an immense ocean—deep, layered, and full of secrets waiting to be discovered. While many are ...

Banerjee, an intrepid explorer and talented epigraphist, worked for the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) when the country ...

The cymbals were excavated from a building dating to the third millennium BCE, associated with the Umm an-Nar culture. Though ...

In the Science paper, an international team of researchers analyzed DNA from 523 ancient humans who lived over the last 8,000 years. The results indicate that after the decline of the Indus Valley ...

This map depicts the geographical span of the Indus Valley Civilization (IVC), showing ... where a minority of buried individuals yielded ancient DNA matched that of the Rakhigarhi individuals.

These findings indicate that contact between ancient communities on both sides of the Arabian Gulf resulted in shared musical traditions central to rituals and religious beliefs, Douglas’ team says.

Narrator: Hello, future people of the UK. I’d like to show you what it’s like to live in the ancient Indus Valley, one of the earliest civilisations, so we’re a long way back in time.

Bronze Age cymbals discovered in Oman show music's role in connecting ancient civilizations, shifting focus from trade to ...