A local government in India has offered a top prize of $1 million to the first person who can crack the code of an ancient script found in the ruins of the Indus Valley civilization known as Harappan.

Harappa was an ancient urban settlement of the Bronze ... In the 19th and 20th centuries, archaeologists discovered traces of India's earliest civilization, one that developed in the fertile ...

In the process, he marries science to fantasy, fuses myth and history together ... a version of this struggle did play out in ancient India with somewhat similar results. Buddhism rose as an ...

in or out of India. There are two main groups vying to claim the Indus civilization. One group argues the script has links to Indo-European languages such as ancient Sanskrit, which spawned many ...

Archaeological digs in Rajasthan have unearthed punch-marked coins dating back to 600-1000 BC, illuminating a period between the Indus Valley ... coins found across India. AK Jagdhari, retired ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to historian William Dalrymple about his latest book, "The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed ... and the centrality in human civilization that it holds, but ...

Ancient India’s greatest engineering achievement ... Technical neutrality is a profitable — and pernicious — myth. These constraints expose a deeper predicament. Defence contracts offer ...