New research reveals that the 4,000-year-old city of Mohenjo-daro defied the 'rules' of history by becoming more equal as it became more successful.

Shereen Ratnagar, a leading archaeologist renowned for her work on the Indus Valley Civilization, passed away in Mumbai at 82 ...

The Indus Valley Civilization is one of the many ancient civilizations that once existed. It was a mirror into modern yet ...

A mysterious script could help solve the mysteries of one of humanity's oldest civilizations. The Indus River Valley civilization site is as important to archaeologists as ancient Mesopotamia and ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Indus civilization is one of the great mysteries of the ancient world. An urban society, it was made up of hundreds of cities and towns that stretched across what are today northern India and ...

Shereen Ratnagar was synonymous with Harappan history and specialized in the Indus Valley Civilization, with a focus on its ...

A new article explores how an ancient culture dealt with variable environments. With climate change in our own era becoming increasingly evident, it's natural to wonder how our ancestors may have ...

For decades, historians have generally agreed that the progress of small villages as they evolved into cities came at the ...