The Harappan Civilisation, also known as the Indus Valley Civilisation, is one of the most important topics for the UPSC Civil Services Examination (CSE) syllabus. Candidates who are preparing for ...

The government of Tamil Nadu has announced a $1 million reward for anyone who can successfully decipher the cryptic script of the ancient Indus Valley Civilization (IVC). Chief Minister M.K ...

For 150 years, people have tried to decipher mysterious symbols written by an advanced civilization believed to rival ancient Egypt. Can a $1 million prize help crack the puzzle?

Spanning 3300 B.C.E. to 1300 B.C.E, the Indus Valley civilization represents one of the area’s earliest societies, flourishing the fertile plains of the Indus River.

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 ...

Seals with the signs and symbols of the Indus Valley civilization are waiting to be deciphered. Gary Todd via Wikimedia Commons under CC0 1.0. More than 5,300 years ago, a ...

Archaeologists discovered the artifact in 1926 while conducting archaeological excavations in a region of Pakistan that was once inhabited by the Indus Valley Civilization, a Bronze Age culture ...

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.

Female figurine of the Mature Harappan period, 2700–2000 BCE, Indus civilization. Credit: Wikipedia/National Museum, New Delhi. Subscribe for ads-free reading. The pen might be mightier than a ...

An Advanced Early Civilization. Early centers were populated by Neolithic settlements such as Mehrgahr in Balochistan. Like the valley of the Nile and the basin of the Tigris-Euphrates, the Indus ...