The Harappan civilization dominated the Indus River valley beginning about five thousand ... their cities on fairly strict grids. Above is a sketch of the city plan of Mohenjo-Daro, based on ...

Left behind by the Indus Valley civilization, which emerged more than five millennia ago in present-day India and Pakistan, these pictorial symbols been found on thousands of copper plates ...

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 ...

Photo from Jed Owen via Unsplash Four thousand years ago, the sprawling Indus valley civilization dominated the area of modern-day India and Pakistan. Although considered one of the world’s ...

The chief minister of Tamil Nadu, a state in India, announced a prize of $1 million for anyone who can decipher the ancient ...

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 ...

Two new genetic studies published this week offer some rare insights into the Indus Valley Civilization, one of the earliest human civilizations. The work helps illuminate where these people, who ...

We know that only the cities fell into ruins. Farmers in the Indus Valley went on living in their villages and working on their farms, but the civilisation would never return to greatness again.