The Indus Valley Civilization, in its mature phase, thrived for about 700 years, from around 2600 B.C. to 1900 B.C.

The Indus Valley Civilization was the largest of the ancient civilizations with a population of over 5 million people, over 1500 sites spanning an area of over 1 million square kilometers full of ...

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 ...

The Indus Valley, or Harappan, Civilization flourished between about 3300 B.C. and 1300 B.C. in the region that is now covered by parts of Afghanistan, Pakistan and northwestern India ...

The script has remained undeciphered for more than a century. Carved stone seal from the Indus Valley civilization (ca. 2,500 B.C.E.). Photo by DEA/G. Nimatallah/De Agostini via Getty Images.

Vasant Shinde, an archeologist at Deccan College whose team excavated I6113, says the attempts to get ancient DNA from Indus Valley–civilization sites have been a years-long learning process.

But more interesting is what they did not have: no king, army, or religion. The Indus Valley Civilization undermines the Enlightenment idea of historical progress as global and linear.

World Indus valley civilization disappeared 3,600 years ago — we finally know why, study says By Aspen Pflughoeft May 2, 2023 12:35 PM ...