These findings indicate that contact between ancient communities on both sides of the Arabian Gulf resulted in shared musical traditions central to rituals and religious beliefs, Douglas’ team says.

Modern-day populations in India descend from a mixture of peoples living thousands of years ago in South and Central Asia, including the Bronze-Age Indus Valley Civilization, two studies reveal. In ...

The cymbals were excavated from a building dating to the third millennium BCE, associated with the Umm an-Nar culture. Though ...

The Indus Valley Civilisation (IVC), also called the Indus Civilisation, was a significant Bronze Age civilisation that ...

The stylistic design of the cymbals closely resembles examples found in the Indus Valley Civilization, suggesting some level ... linked the Arabian Peninsula with South Asia during the Bronze Age, ...

Archaeologists have analyzed a pair of copper cymbals from Bronze Age Oman, suggesting a shared ... between the Umm an-Nar culture and the Indus Valley civilization. Trade around the Arabian ...