The Indus Valley Civilization — famous for its large, well-planned cities — is considered one of the six early pristine state-level civilizations.

This map depicts the geographical span of the Indus Valley Civilization (IVC), showing the location of Rakhigarhi (blue), other significant IVC sites (red), and sites to the north and west from ...

The Indus Valley Civilization (also known as the Harappan Civilization) popped up around the Indus and Saraswati Rivers in the Indian subcontinent.

This is a photograph of a red slipped ware globular pot placed near the head of the skeleton that yielded ancient DNA. There are lines as well as indentations on the upper right side, just below ...

Dramatic new discoveries illuminate the lost Indus civilization This urban society in South Asia survived a weather apocalypse 4,000 years ago.

The Indus Valley Civilization, existing from 3300 BCE to 1300 BCE, is one of the world's earliest urban cultures.

It is a riddle that has confounded scholars for over a century. And now it carries a handsome cash prize: $1 million for anyone who can decipher the script of the ancient Indus Valley civilization ...

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 ...

Key points India’s first civilization was astonishingly advanced. But more interesting is what they did not have: no king, army, or religion. The Indus Valley Civilization undermines the ...

Andrew Robinson reflects on the most tantalizing of all the undeciphered scripts — that used in the civilization of the Indus valley in the third millennium bc.

The country's government has announced that it is offering a whopping $1 million prize to anyone who can crack the mysterious Indus Valley script.