A series of century-scale droughts may have quietly reshaped one of the world’s earliest urban civilizations. New climate reconstructions show that the Indus Valley Civilization endured repeated long ...

The culprit behind the mysterious disappearance of one of the most advanced urban civilizations at the time, contemporaries ...

Cave stalagmite in Himalayas offers most detailed explanation for what led to decline of ancient Indus civilization, study says. Photo from Jed Owen via Unsplash Four thousand years ago, the sprawling ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ancient Indus Valley Civilization's decline was driven by prolonged droughts, not sudden catastrophe. New climate studies reveal centuries of drying rivers and water stress forced gradual abandonment ...

Researchers have successfully sequenced the first genome of an individual from the Harappan civilization, also called the Indus Valley Civilization (IVC). The DNA, which belongs to an individual who ...

Why Is Myanmar’s Military Bothering to Hold an Election? This article is part of an ongoing series surveying archeological and historical sites across Asia. For the introduction to this series, please ...

The Indus Valley Civilization has long stood as one of humanity’s great enigmas, a Bronze Age society that mastered urban ...