If deciphered, the script could offer a glimpse into a Bronze Age civilization ... trade routes. Perhaps more importantly, it might help answer fundamental questions about who the Indus Valley ...

with evidence suggesting trade links with Mesopotamia, Persia, and other distant regions. Decline and Abandonment: Despite its success, the Indus Valley Civilization began to decline around 1900 BCE.

The Indus Valley civilization is one of earliest civilizations in world ... Located at the crossroads of historic trade routes, the region has been settled by a number of groups through time. But ...

long-distance exchange and trade” also declined. About 300 years after the final dry period around 3,600 years ago, the Indus valley civilization disappeared entirely, the study said.

The Indus Valley Civilization (IVC), or Harappan Civilization, as it came to be called, also had extensive terrestrial and maritime trade connections with, among others, Central Asia, Mesopotamia ...