A new study argues the Indus Civilization may have been the most egalitarian society in the ancient world—but scholars are ...

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 earliest civilizations and the subject of ...

India, June 7 -- The core issue raised by the Pashupati Seal debate is the ongoing challenge of defining India's ...

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 ...

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 ...

Shereen Ratnagar, a leading archaeologist renowned for her work on the Indus Valley Civilization, passed away in Mumbai at 82 ...

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 civilization is one of the great mysteries of the ancient world. An urban society, it was made up of hundreds of cities and towns that stretched across what are today northern India and ...

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 ...