Archaeologists recently uncovered a seven-metre-thick defensive wall at Mohenjo-daro, one of the significant ancient cities ...

Four thousand years ago, the sprawling Indus valley civilization dominated the area of modern-day India and Pakistan. Although considered one of the world’s earliest civilizations and the subject of ...

The Indus Valley Civilization is popularly known as Harappan Civilization, and it emerged independently rather than as an offshoot of Mesopotamia or Egypt. Its cities show a distinctive approach to ...

Among the countless intriguing artefacts excavated from the Indus Valley Civilisation, the finding of cubical dice stands out as one of the most captivating. These ordinary, unassertive objects offer ...

A series of century-scale droughts may have quietly reshaped one of the world’s earliest urban civilizations. New climate reconstructions show that the Indus Valley Civilization endured repeated long ...

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In the mid-1850s, a few years after the British annexation of the Punjab, some railway builders stumbled upon an ancient mound of terracotta bricks at Harappa in the valley of the Ravi. Despite ...

At its peak, the ancient Indus River Valley civilization featured gridded streets, multistory brick homes, flush toilets and bustling shops. Its people traded gold, precious stones and items such as ...

For more than a century, the ancient Indus script has mystified researchers. Left behind by the Indus Valley civilization, which emerged more than five millennia ago in present-day India and Pakistan, ...

The Indus script has been called, with irony, the most deciphered script in the world. The first claim to a decipherment, based on the Sumerian language, was published as early as 1925. More than a ...

Cave stalagmite in Himalayas offers most detailed explanation for what led to decline of ancient Indus civilization, study says. Photo from Jed Owen via Unsplash Four thousand years ago, the sprawling ...