Ajay.Sura@timesgroup.Hisar's Rakhigarhi village, once a key place in the Indus Valley civilization, will get a museum-cum-interpretation centre to preserve the biggest Harappan site in South Asia.

All is quiet at Ancient Mound No. I (RGR-I), in Rakhigarhi, Haryana, as a handful of people laze in the winter sun nearby. A couple of workers are laboriously covering the recently concluded ...

DNA samples collected from two human skeletons unearthed at a necropolis of a Harappan-era city site in Haryana have been sent for scientific examination, the outcome of which might tell about the ...

A recent piece of news, which has gone mostly unnoticed, yet can hold significant future implications in the field of archaeology, was the reopening of the Rakhigarhi site excavations in Haryana.

Ancient DNA evidence reveals that the people of the mysterious and complex Indus Valley Civilization are genetically linked to modern South Asians today. The same gene sequences, drawn from a single ...

Rakhigarhi, a village in Haryana’s Hisar district, is considered one of the largest known sites of the Indus Valley Civilisation (IVC). It is one of only two Harappan-era cities located within India’s ...

The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist, and is ...

Charan Singh’s field is lush with bajra (pearl millet) and cotton crops — and dotted with shards of ancient history. The Haryana farmer walks past the neat rows of bajra, stopping every now and then ...

Can 'national heritage' Rakhigarhi survive for long With no landmarks or any sign boards to guide you, there is every possibility that you may miss one of the most archeologically important places in ...

Studies on a 4500-yearold skeleton, led by Dr VS Shinde of Pune’s Deccan College, may prove we know less about our ancestry than we thought. Studies on a 4500-yearold skeleton, led by Dr VS Shinde of ...