Ancient Indians

A Journey Through Ancient India

Month: November 2024

Ancient Indians Had the World’s First Dockyard at Lothal

Between 1954 and 1958, a survey of the coastline of Kutch, Kathiawar, and South Gujarat by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) revealed several Harappan settlements, many of them ports located at the mouths of rivers. Of all these, Lothal,…

The Indus Script Finally Deciphered

A more than a century-old mystery that baffled everyone finally comes to an end—the Indus script has been deciphered, according to Yajnadevam, a U.S.-based cryptographer and computer programmer with interests in political theory, linguistics, ancient manuscripts, and history. Yajnadevam claims…