Monthly Archives: November 2016

India’s present diverse population arose from five types of ancient populations that freely mixed and interbred for thousands of years before the rigid caste system, with its principle of prohibition of marriage outside the caste, put an end to this mixing. This ancient history hinted at in various linguistic, archeological and genetic studies has been […]

It may be time to rewrite history textbooks. Scientists from IIT-Kharagpur andArchaeological Survey of India (ASI) have uncovered evidence that the Indus Valley Civilization is at least 8,000 years old, and not 5,500 years old, taking root well before the Egyptian (7000BC to 3000BC) and Mesopotamian (6500BC to 3100BC) civilizations. What’s more, the researchers have […]