More inscriptions were found in the 1990s, but the Indus script corpus is not abundant. Then an inscription is tantalisingly brief: many consist of only a single character, the average has fewer than ...

In the mid-1850s, a few years after the British annexation of the Punjab, some railway builders stumbled upon an ancient mound of terracotta bricks at Harappa in the valley of the Ravi. Despite ...

A new scientific study suggests that the sudden collapse of the ancient Indus River Valley civilization, known for its advanced urban planning, brick buildings, early plumbing systems and vibrant ...

Dholavira is an ancient archaeological site located in the Kutch district of Gujarat, India. It is one of the largest and most well-preserved Harappan sites in India and dates back to the Indus Valley ...

How old is Indian civilization, and can it even be described as a single civilization at all? This episode traces the deep history of South Asia - from the Indus Valley Civilization and ancient ...

Scientists have sequenced the genome of an individual that lived four to five millennia ago and was part of the Harappan civilization, which is also referred to as the Indus Valley Civilization (IVC).

At its height, the Indus Valley civilization was one of the most advanced societies on Earth. In cities such as Harappa, people lived in multistorey brick houses laid out along gridded streets. They ...

The Indus Valley Civilization is as mysterious as Atlantis, except that we know the Indus Valley Civilization was very real. More than 5,000 years ago, the people of the Indus Valley had planned ...

This article is part of an ongoing series surveying archeological and historical sites across Asia. For the introduction to this series, please see here. As mentioned in the introductory article to ...