Harappan civilisation

The Dancing Girl is a 4,500-year-old 4.1 inches tall world-renowned bronze sculpture from the Harappan Civilisation.

Lothal was a key port city of the IVC around 2400 BCE. The NMHC, a ₹4,500 crore project spanning over 400 acres allocated by the Gujarat government, aims to preserve and showcase this ancient site’s historical significance while promoting tourism and education for future generations.

On Engineers’ Day, India honours Visvesvaraya while recalling ancient feats: a 2,000-year-old dam, medieval reservoirs, Indus Valley waterworks, Mauryan highways, and a bustling Chola port that reveal India’s forgotten brilliance in city building.

What emerged from the excavation conducted between April 2024 and May 2025 has drawn the attention of historians and archaeologists, who link the discovered paleochannel to the Saraswati River.

The researchers uncovered a range of stone tools including cutters, scrapers, and splitters. They also discovered cores from which these tools were made.

“This terminology is based on established archaeological scholarship, not on any recent political influence. So, this is not a Hindutva thing. Moreover, we have included all alternative names. To me, this is factual,” the visiting professor at IIT Gandhinagar said.

The ASI and Deccan College Pune have worked together over the past two years to complete the third phase of excavations at Rakhigarhi, led by ASI joint director Sanjay Kumar Manjul and Deccan College Pune assistant professor Prabhodh Shirwalkar.

The Harappan laddoos from 2600 BCE were excavated by the ASI in 2017 and were given to the BSIP for scientific analysis

The research by the scientists of PRL, Ahmedabad and IIT-Bombay says that ample evidence has been found that suggests a considerable number of Harappan settlements had flourished along the ancient course of a modern seasonal stream called Ghaggar in Northwestern India.