Rakhigarhi, India's largest Indus Valley site, spans 550 hectares in Haryana. Recent ASI excavations and aDNA analysis of 4,600-year-old skeletons by AnSI and leading geneticists prove indigenous Harappan origins, famously lacking Steppe pastoralist ancestry and redefining South Asian demographic history.
Click to View MoreThe Mohenjo-daro Dancing Girl, a 10.5-cm bronze artefact from the Indus Valley Civilization, showcases advanced lost-wax metallurgical techniques. Discovered in 1926, this iconic sculpture reflects the high aesthetic sophistication, cultural richness, and artistic mastery of India's earliest urban society.
Click to View MoreThe Harappan script, a writing system of the Indus Valley Civilization, is a mystery with over 400 pictographic symbols and is primarily found on steatite seals. Despite theories like the Dravidian hypothesis, its true linguistic nature remains unknown due to the brevity of inscriptions and lack of bilingual texts.
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