When people think of ancient civilizations in South Asia, the Harappans often come to mind. But what if signs of human life ...
A simple ChatGPT prompt on gold coins in India suggests that they came into widespread use during the Kushan rule (1st-3rd century CE). Our history textbooks told us the same. But this so-called fact ...
Even for a civilisation as advanced as the Harappan, a second drought was perhaps one too many. A two-pronged climate catastrophe may be what drove the ancient society to disperse and eventually ...
The pen might be mightier than a sword but, as Ramesh Chandra Majumdar, one of India’s leading historians of the 20th century, put it in 1970, the spade of the archeologist can be mightier than the ...