Mystery of Indus Valley Script
The Tamil Nadu Government has announced a one million dollar prize for cracking the Indus Valley script.During the last century numerous attempts have been made on the language it represents.Even…
Indus Valley Civilization
Beyond Nilakanta Sastri: Revisiting Dravidian and Aryan Narratives
Introduction: It is curious why The Hindu newspaper has chosen to revisit Prof. Nilakanta Sastri’s 1964 lecture at this time, especially when more recent studies have emerged in the field.…
100 Years of Indus Valley Civilization and the Politics of Historical Distortion in India
The recent announcement by the Tamil Nadu government to honor British Archaeologist Sir John Marshall on the 100th Year of the discovery of the Indus Valley Civilization is of great…
We Can Interpret How Cooperative or Autocratic Mesoamerican Societies Were From Their Systems of Communication
by Gary M. Feinman and David M. Carballo The modes of communication that a society uses can tell us a lot about its political structure. A research study we published in…
Why Are Archaeologists Unable to Find Evidence for a Ruling Class of the Indus Civilization?
What we can learn from an ancient egalitarian civilization in the Indus Valley. Little more than a century ago, British and Indian archaeologists began excavating the remains of what they…
Shudras Built The Indus Valley Civilization!
The archaeological evidence shows that the first ever city—Harappa-- was built in the Indian Sub-continent around 2850-2900 Before Christ in the world. The name Harappa sounds like a South Indian…
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