New research reveals that the 4,000-year-old city of Mohenjo-daro defied the 'rules' of history by becoming more equal as it became more successful.

The Indus Valley Civilization built some of the world’s earliest cities, developed advanced urban planning, and maintained long-distance trade networks across ancient Asia. Yet despite these ...

LONDON, ENGLAND—A new study suggests that Bronze Age Indus villages may not have relied upon flowing, Himalayan rivers to survive, according to a Live Science report. Sedimentologist Sanjeev Gupta of ...

Ancient DNA evidence reveals that the people of the mysterious and complex Indus Valley Civilization are genetically linked to modern South Asians today. The same gene sequences, drawn from a single ...

HARYANA, INDIA—Four 5,000-year-old skeletons from the Harappan civilization have been recovered from an ancient cemetery near Rakhigarhi village in northern India. The well-preserved skeletons were ...

THERE is adequate archaeological evidence 1 that the Harappans, who flourished in the Indus Valley between 2500 and 1700 ±100 BC, lived in very much moister climatic conditions than those which exist ...

ON December 8, Dr. E. J. H. Mackay delivered the Sir George Birdwood Memorial Lecture before the Royal Society of Arts. Dr. Mackay pointed out that until we are able to outline the history of the ...

A mysterious script could help solve the mysteries of one of humanity's oldest civilizations. The Indus River Valley civilization site is as important to archaeologists as ancient Mesopotamia and ...

THATTA: Archaeologists have discovered submerged ruins, including a mound and structural remains believed to be part of a historic structure, during Sindh's first marine archaeology exploration in the ...

Thought to have arrived from China in 2000 BC, the latest research shows that domesticated rice agriculture in India and Pakistan existed centuries earlier, and suggests systems of seasonal crop ...