The Indus Valley Civilization has long stood as one of humanity’s great enigmas, a Bronze Age society that mastered urban planning, long-distance trade and sophisticated water management, then faded ...

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 ...

Seals with the signs and symbols of the Indus Valley civilization are waiting to be deciphered. Gary Todd via Wikimedia Commons under CC0 1.0 More than 5,300 years ago, a civilization emerged along ...

The Indus Valley Civilization built some of the world’s earliest cities, developed advanced urban planning, and maintained long-distance trade networks across ancient Asia. Yet despite these ...

New research has found evidence -- locked into an ancient stalagmite from a cave in the Himalayas -- of a series of severe and lengthy droughts which may have upturned the Bronze Age Indus ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered a seven-metre-thick defensive wall at Mohenjo-daro, one of the significant ancient cities of the Indus Valley Civilization in the Sindh province of Pakistan. The ...

A prize offered by an Indian state leader is intended to shed light on a Bronze Age civilization — and settle a cultural battle. By Pragati K.B. Reporting from New Delhi It is a riddle that has ...

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 ...