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Dancing girl of Mohenjo-Daro: Read why the tiny bronze figure has been one of the most iconic artefacts of India’s ancient heritage

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

Droughts that lasted generations: Scientists may have found the real reason behind the fall of the Indus Valley Civilisation 

OpIndia Staff -
The researchers spotted four massive droughts between 2425 and 1400 BCE, each dragging on over 85 years.
News Reports

Harappan people ate multigrain “laddoos”, used them in rituals on the banks of River Saraswati, says new ASI study

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

Archaeologists discover pre-Harappan site ruins in Kutch

OpIndia Staff -
A pre-Harappan cemetry is founded from the Dholavira excavation site in Kutch
News Reports

In a first, Archaeologists discovered a couple grave in a Harappan cemetery

OpIndia Staff -
This is the first anthropologically confirmed case of coupled burial from a Harappan cemetery
News Reports

Study of Rakhigarhi remains finds no Central Asian trace, lands another blow to Aryan Invasion Theory

Sanghamitra -
The study says the no foreign DNA was found, suggests Vedic civilisation was propagated by Indigenous people, not foreign invaders
News Reports

2000 BC copper-bronze age chariots, weapons found by ASI suggest a highly sophisticated ‘warrior clan’ civilisation

OpIndia Staff -
the findings, dated around 2200-1800BC suggest the existence of a highly evolved warrior clan in the pre-iron age
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ISRO’s findings should put an end to the myth of the Saraswati river being a ‘myth’

Nithesh S -
Pseudo-liberal historians often mock the existence of the river

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