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Rakhigarhi Mahotsav to shed light on ancient site from December 20 to 22
3 weeks, 4 days ago

Rakhigarhi Mahotsav to shed light on ancient site from December 20 to 22

Hindustan Times  

The Haryana government’s department of heritage and tourism has organised the first ever Rakhigarhi Mahotsav from December 20 to 22 to shed light on the recent discoveries at the Rakhigarhi archaeological site in Hisar district and promote appreciation and awareness of the culture of the people who lived there. The festival will include heritage walks led by archaeologists who have …

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Historicity | Haryana, where myth and history mingled to make for epic battles
3 months, 1 week ago

Historicity | Haryana, where myth and history mingled to make for epic battles

Hindustan Times  

It may be election season now, but Haryana always evokes a set of images: wrestlers, fertile crops and the khaps known for passing bizarre orders. Nearly 500 years ago, the first battle of Panipat was fought between the reigning emperor, Ibrahim Lodi and his Timurid challenger, Zahird-ud-din Muhammad Babur, on April 12, 1526. However, Lodi outsized Babur’s army considerably, according …

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The 4,600-year-old woman from Rakhigarhi
8 months ago

The 4,600-year-old woman from Rakhigarhi

The Hindu  

Roughly 150 km from Delhi, the national capital, down the Delhi-Sirsa highway, a meandering road leads to the twin villages of Rakhi Shahpur and Rakhi Khas in Haryana’s Hissar district. ASI on ground The findings were first published in two papers in 2019: one in the peer-reviewed journal Cell named ‘An Ancient Harappan Genome Lacks Ancestry from Steppe Pastoralists or …

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Rakhigarhi findings in NCERT books added; Narmada Dam references dropped
9 months ago

Rakhigarhi findings in NCERT books added; Narmada Dam references dropped

The Hindu  

April 06, 2024 03:04 am | Updated 01:31 pm IST - New Delhi: Among the latest set of revisions that the National Council of Educational Research and Training has proposed in school textbooks are additions about findings from the DNA analysis of skeletal remains found at the archaeological site of Rakhigarhi in Haryana and the dropping of references to how …

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‘Harappan civilisation is 7000 to 8000 years old’: Scientists studying DNA samples from Rakhigarhi site find
1 year ago

‘Harappan civilisation is 7000 to 8000 years old’: Scientists studying DNA samples from Rakhigarhi site find

Op India  

In a major development in the study of Harappan Civilisation, the researchers from Deccan College Pune and the Central Archaeological Survey of India have found that human remains unearthed at an ancient site of Rakhigarhi – a village in the Hisar district of Haryana – date back roughly 8,000 years. Professor Vasant Shinde of Deccan College Pune led the second …

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DNA samples from Rakhigarhi burial pits sent for analysis
2 years, 8 months ago

DNA samples from Rakhigarhi burial pits sent for analysis

The Hindu  

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 ancestry and food habits of people who lived in the Rakhigarhi region thousands of years ago. Besides, samples taken from the teeth area would tell about their food …

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DNA analysis of Harappan skeleton from Rakhigarhi: Thin evidence
5 years, 3 months ago

DNA analysis of Harappan skeleton from Rakhigarhi: Thin evidence

The Hindu  

IN early September, the newspapers reported with considerable excitement the publication of a scientific paper on the DNA analysis on an individual skeleton found in the Harappan site of Rakhigarhi in Hisar district of Haryana. Since modern populations of Iran and South Asia have a high component of Steppe ancestry and almost none of the ancient Iranian one, this reveals …

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What does ancient DNA show about history?
5 years, 3 months ago

What does ancient DNA show about history?

The Hindu  

The story so far: Last Thursday, the journal Cell published a paper, An Ancient Harappan Genome Lacks Ancestry from Steppe Pastoralists and Iranian Farmers, which claimed that the inhabitants of the Indus Valley Civilisation lacked the steppe-pastoralist ancestry which had brought Indo-European languages into South Asia. Based on an unprecedented 523 aDNA samples ranging over 8,000 years across Eurasia, the …

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The new reports clearly confirm ‘Arya’ migration into India
5 years, 3 months ago

The new reports clearly confirm ‘Arya’ migration into India

The Hindu  

The last time a paper titled ‘The Genomic Formation of South and Central Asia’ was released online, in March 2018, it created a sensation in India and around the world. Mostly because the paper, co-authored by 92 scientists, many of them doyens of different disciplines, said that between 2000 BCE and 1000 BCE, there were significant migrations from the Central …

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Indus Valley Civilisation continues to provide crucial insight into Indians' ancestors and their lifestyles
5 years, 10 months ago

Indus Valley Civilisation continues to provide crucial insight into Indians' ancestors and their lifestyles

Firstpost  

I read an interesting book this week, titled Which of us are Aryans? Till the 1920s, Indians did not know about the existence of the Indus Valley Civilisation, which was discovered in places like Harappa, Mohenjo-daro in Sindh and then elsewhere in India. The discovery of how old the Indus Valley Civilisation was changed the way people thought about the …

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Our history is older than Aryan influx
5 years, 10 months ago

Our history is older than Aryan influx

Deccan Chronicle  

I read an interesting book this week, titled, “Which of us are Aryans?”. Till the 1920s, Indians did not know about the existence of the Indus Valley Civilisation, which was discovered in places like Harappa, Mohenjo Daro in Sindhi and then elsewhere in India. The discovery of how old the Indus Valley Civilisation was changed the way people thought about …

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