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.

Beginnings of a River. The Indus is an antecedent river, which means it has existed for over 50 million years, since the Indian plate first collided with Asia and gave rise to the Himalayas.

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.

As part of renaming, in 2023, a government of India publication on the occasion of the G-20 summit in New Delhi referred to the Indus Valley Civilization as the Sindhu-Saraswati civilization.

The Indus Valley Civilizations' end #india #geography #history #drought #indusriver. Posted: September 16, 2024 | Last updated: September 16, 2024. The drought that ended India's first large ...

The already disappeared Buddhas of Bamiyan, in 1834, drawn by another traveler: Alexander Burnes. Credit: Public domain / Wikimedia Commons From the end of that year, we have some descriptions from ...

The civilization of Indus River Valley is considered one of the three earliest civilizations in world history, along with Mesopotamia and Egypt. Bigger geographically than those two as it unfolded ...

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, ...

Gliding through the waters of the Indus River, Pakistan’s river dolphins – known locally as “bulhan” – can be glimpsed as they rise up to gulp air before submerging once again into the ...

The nearest Indus Valley site from Luna is about 200 kilometres away. However, scientists are skeptical about whether this impact could have wiped out the Indus Valley civilisation.