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

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

Bronze Age cymbals found in Oman reveal how music united ancient cultures across trade routes, ceremonies, and rituals.

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

Our ancestors’ ability to recognize water sources was crucial to their survival. As a result, the attraction to lustrous ...

It was the largest city of the thriving Indus Valley (Harappan ... to distant corners of the subcontinent, looking for ancient artefacts, ruins and scripts. But while his discovery of Mohenjo ...

The designs on these bowls, write the curators, "include animal imagery from distant Mesopotamian and Indus Valley (present ... we can do to show off our ancient civilization—here and abroad ...

On a windswept ridge overlooking the plains of northern Oman, a pair of ancient cymbals ... to others found in the Indus Valley, the heart of a sophisticated Bronze Age civilization in what ...

Might they hold the key to rediscovering a lost civilization that once thrived ... followed by a 90-minute drive along the Indus River valley. The journey takes you past the camouflaged barracks ...