 Numerous
Recent
Findings in archaeology, genetics, linguistics, cultural
continuity and other sciences are rewriting
history. Read about it here.
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 LAHORE: Pakistani archaeologists have discovered a rare Indus Valley civilization-era seal of an ibus in steatite dating back to 2,500-2,000 BC from the Cholistan area of Punjab province. |
Endangered Historic Temple in India Saved from Slow Destruction
A magnificent historic temple among the ancient ruins of Hampi, India, receives a much-needed restoration. GHF and conservationists are hoping that the work being done at Hampi will serve as a model that will be applied to other significant cultural sites facing disintegration or destruction throughout the developing world. |
Woods Hole Study Concludes: Collapse of Ancient Indus Civilization Due to Climate Change
 "We reconstructed the dynamic landscape of the plain where the Indus civilization developed 5200 years ago, built its cities, and slowly disintegrated between 3900 and 3000 years ago..." A new study combining the latest archaeological evidence with state-of-the-art geoscience technologies provides evidence that climate change was a key ingredient in the collapse of the great Indus or Harappan Civilization almost 4000 years ago. The study also resolves a long-standing debate over the source and fate of the Sarasvati, the sacred river of Hindu mythology. |
 Linguistic Aspects of the Indo-European Urheimat Question
by Dr. Koenraad Elst
It is too early
to say that linguistics has proven an Indian origin for the Indo-European family... Linguistic Evidence
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 Brahmi Inscription: A short inscription engraved in the Brahmi characters has been discovered in the Edakal cave on the Ambukuthi hill in Kerala's Wayanad district. This is the fifth Tamil-Brahmi inscription discovered in the caves. |
 Lost textile village back on UP map
A long-buried village, burnt down by the British in 1857, has finally got its due nearly 150 years after it lost its place on the country’s map.
Mahua Dabar — a village in modern-day Basti, Uttar Pradesh, where weavers from Bengal had migrated early in the 19th century — was indeed a textile hub before the British razed it to the ground.
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 Aryan
Invasion Debate
Read the latest articles on the Aryan Invasion and keep up to date on this important topic: Aryan Invasion Theory
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 Indian scientist set to change world history
Was Max Muller at fault when he propagated the White Invasion theory? Did Aryan Invasion not take place? Are we going to witness a change in world history? If reports of Prof Lalji Singh — an internationally acclaimed biotechnology expert — are to be believed, recent studies and research work on tracing genetic lineage of primitive human species have already suggested a different world history, enough to prove a major breakthrough in this field. No White Aryan Invasion? |
 Decoding the Ancient Script of the Indus Valley
The ancient cities of the Indus Valley belonged to the greatest civilization the world may never know. Since the 1920s, dozens of archaeological expeditions have unearthed traces of a 4,500-year-old urban culture that covered some 300,000 square miles in modern day Pakistan and north-western India. Digs at major sites such as Mohenjo-daro and Harappa revealed a sophisticated society whose towns had advanced sanitation, bathhouses and grid-like city planning.
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 Archaeologists to unravel origins of iron and steel in India
In a new research, archaeologists have studied the origins of high carbon steel-making and iron in the southern Indian sub-continent. |
 Newly Discovered Archaeological Sites In India
Reveal Ancient Life
Newly discovered archaeological sites in
southern and northern India have revealed how people lived before and
after the colossal Toba volcanic eruption 74,000 years ago. |
 New Book Available from Amazon - Science of the Sacred (external link) by David Osborn with a Forward by Dr. David Frawley - Browse the ancient traditions of Sacred Dance, Vedic Mathematics, Vastu Shastra, Vedic Science, Transcendental Sound, Ayurvedic Natural Treatment and more. As a PDF: Science of the Sacred PDF
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  Aryan
Invasion — History or Politics?
By
Dr. N.S. Rajaram
The
evidence of science now points to two basic
conclusions: first, there was no Aryan invasion,
and second, the Rigvedic people were
already established in India no later than
4000 B.C.E.... Aryan
Invasion
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 Decipherment
of Indus Valley Vedic Seals in Modern Science
By Prof. C.P. Trivedi
The Indus Valley Civilization was scientifically
developed. It has generated a quest to know their source of scientific
development. It has been observed that the excavated seals and the tablets are the
hoofs of their traces. The Vedic metaphors have been engraved on the seals. |
 Underwater
Archaeology in the Gulf of Cambay
An innocuous piece of
wood along with a slew of artifacts are set
to push back Indian antiquity to 7,500 B.C.E.,
if material picked up from the sea-bed of
the Gulf of Cambay gets scientific verification...Cambay
Archaeology
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Ganging up on biblical archaeology
A Times Op-Ed writer stubbornly dismissed evidence that shows an important artifact from the Holy Land may not be a hoax. Nina Burleigh ("Hoaxes from the Holy Land” Op-Ed article, Nov. 29) is unwilling to consider the possibility that the now-famous bone box (see left) inscribed "James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus" is authentic. |
 The
Harappan Civilization
By Tarini J.
Carr
Thousands of years ago there thrived a civilization
in the Indus Valley; the earliest known urban
culture of the Indian subcontinent... Harappan
Civilization
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Vedic Roots of Early Tamil Culture
By
Michel Danino
In recent years
attempts have been made to cast a new
look at ancient India. For too long the
picture has been distorted by myopic
colonial readings of India’s prehistory
and early history, and more recently
by ill-suited Marxist models...
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Story (Opens in new window)
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Art History Timelines
Comprehensive timelines of art history from all over the world. Details of every time period and particular events are given. This is a fantastic site, with many links to related information... Art history timelines |
 Natural History of the Vedic Civilization
Unique conditions at the end of the Ice Age gave rise to agriculture in Southeast Asia. Its spread to India made the Vedic civilization possible.
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The Vedic Harappans in Writing
In the Harappan cities some 4200 seals, many of them duplicates, have been found which carry short inscriptions in an otherwise unknown script. There is not the slightest doubt that this harvest of Harappan writings is but the tip of an iceberg...
By Dr. Koenraad Elst Full Story
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The Rock Art of Central India
Despite
the excellent work carried out by my Indian
colleagues in the past quarter of a century,
Indian rock art is not as well known abroad
as it should be. And yet it is both extremely
abundant and spectacular..." Rock Art |
Vastu
Shastra- Sacred Vedic Architecture
By
Muktirajsinhji Chauhan
 Adherence
to Vastu Shastra, the ancient and medieval
canons on city planning and architecture,
has suddenly assumed tremendous significance,
particularly among the well-educated and affluent
in urban India. It may be difficult to predict
if this is just a fad ... Vastu
Shastra Article
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UP village offers a fresh clue to solve a Harappan puzzle
The remains found in western UP. SINAULI, NOVEMBER 17: For thousands of years, the fields of Sinauli in western Uttar Pradesh hid their secret well. But now its past is out in the open. Beyond the village's brick lanes and lounging buffaloes, a burial site of the Harappans dating back to about 2,600 BC has finally given up its dead.. UP Village |
Origins
of Iron Ore Working in India
 Recent
excavations in Uttar Pradesh have turned
up iron artifacts, furnaces and
slag in layers radiocarbon dated between
c. B.C.E. 1,800 and 1,000. This raises again
the question of whether iron working was
brought in to India during supposed immigrations
of the second millennium B.C.E., or developed
independently...Iron
Ore |
 Sculptures of the Indus Valley
The story of Indian art and sculpture dates
back to the Indus valley civilization of the
2nd and 3rd millennium B.C.E. Tiny terra-cotta
seals discovered from the valley reveal carvings
of peepal leaves, deities and animals. A golden
chapter of Indian sculpture opens in the 3rd
century B.C.E., when the Mauryan Emperor Ashoka
adopted Buddhism and set out to spread it's
teachings far and wide... Indus
Sculptures |
 A British View of India
During the last three centuries attempts of
most Westerners to penetrate the deeper dimensions
of Indian culture has at best been doomed
to superficiality... British
View of India
Archaeology top
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 The
Heliodorus Column
An archaeological
discovery shows that there were western followers
of Vedic principles twenty-two centuries ago. The column erected by Heliodorus, a
Greek ambassador to India in the second century
B.C.E., first came to notice in 1877, during
an archaeological survey by General Cunningham.
To our knowledge, Heliodorus is the earliest
Westerner on record to adopt Vedic principles... Heliodorus
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