The latest such prize was offered last month by the chief minister of one Indian state: $1 million to anyone who can decode the script of the Indus Valley civilization, which stretched across what ...

Who were the Indus people? The Indus civilisation started almost 5,000 years ago. Find out about different cities in the Indus Valley. What was everyday life like in the Indus Valley? Find out ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. It was very hot in the Indus Valley so people spent a lot of time outside. Most people had small homes which were ...

And now it carries a handsome cash prize: $1 million for anyone who can decipher the script of the ancient Indus Valley civilization. Relatively little is known about the creators of the script ...

All of them are convinced they've deciphered the script of the Indus Valley Civilisation, a blend of signs and symbols. "They claim they've solved it and that the 'case is closed'," says Mr Rao ...

The Indus Valley Civilization, also called the Harappan Civilization, existed from around 3300 BCE to 1300 BCE. It was located in the region of present-day Pakistan , northwestern India , and ...

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 Maju ...

“This changes the whole story of how agriculture began in the Indus Valley,” said Benjamin Mutin, lead author and an archaeologist at Sorbonne University, in France. “We now have strong ...