The Indus Valley civilization, equal in power to Mesopotamia and Egypt, reigned between about 2500 B.C. and 1700 B.C. in what is now mainly Pakistan on the Indian subcontinent.

Lothal. Lothal situated in Gujarat was excavated by S.R.Rao in the year 1957. This town of Indus Valley Civilisation is located on the bank of river Bhagava in Gujarat.

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.

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.

Female figurine of the Mature Harappan period, 2700–2000 BCE, Indus civilization. Credit: Wikipedia/National Museum, New Delhi. The pen might be mightier than a sword but, as Ramesh Chandra ...

An unusual exhibition takes viewers back to the Indus Valley Civilization, the roots of India’s history. Architect-artist Srinivasa Babu Angara revives primeval concepts of deities, and presents ...

The citadel in the old city of Herat was believed to have been constructed by Alexander. Credit: Public Domain. The first of many Alexandrias in the far east of the Macedonian Empire, “Alexandria in ...

The Harappan civilization, the third oldest in the Ancient East, was located in the Indus River Valley and remains mysterious regarding its way of life and decline. Credit: Smn121 / CC-BY-SA-3.0 / ...

The 4,600-year-old woman from Rakhigarhi The DNA study of a skeleton from the archaeological excavation site in Haryana has opened a Pandora’s box on genomics, history, archaeology, and linguistics.

Dating back to about 3700 BCE, Lothal was formerly one of the major towns of the Indus Valley Civilization. The dock here is considered to be the oldest in the world. It used to connect the Arabian ...

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 ...