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

Though its inhabitants left great art and elaborate water infrastructures behind, we know almost nothing about the Indus people who lived between 3,000 and 1300 BCE. In fact, we still haven't even ...

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 ...

Scientists from IIT-Kharagpur and Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) have uncovered evidence that the Indus Valley Civilization is at least 8,000 years old, and not 5,500 years old, taking root ...

Mohenjo Daro, an ancient city of the Indus Valley Civilization, thrived around 2500 BCE in Pakistan. Rediscovered in 1919, its ruins and artifacts reveal the lives of its 40,000 inhabitants and ...

Discover the list of the oldest civilizations in the world like Egypt, Mesopotamia, Mesoamerica, Greece, Indus Valley, and China shaped human progress. Greece fostered democracy, Egypt built ...

The Indus Valley Civilization, existing from 3300 BCE to 1300 BCE, is one of the world's earliest urban cultures. Despite extensive archaeological excavations, its script remains undeciphered ...

The Indus Valley Civilization (IVC), or Harappan Civilization, ... The IVC peaked from around 2700 BCE to 1700 BCE and represents the flowering of the Indian Bronze Age.

Learn what happened to the Indus civilisation. Understand how the Indus civilisation ended and the legacy of its people in this BBC Bitesize history guide.

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.