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

Long before ancient Rome, the cities of the Indus Valley civilization mastered urban planning and public hygiene. An ordered ...

Mesopotamia and the Indus civilization were both urban civilizations with large, densely populated and planned cities, 6000–1990 BCE. A new thesis in archaeology points out that the ancient Indus ...

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 ...

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 ...

Excerpted with permission from the publisher The Indus: Lost Civilizations, Andrew Robinson, published by‎ Macmillan, an imprint of PanMacmillan India. Trade in the Indus civilization was an ...

The secrets of the Indus Valley stretch back millennia, locked away in symbols no one has cracked. This video dives into the ...

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 ...

The pen might be mightier than a sword but, as Ramesh Chandra Majumdar, one of India’s leading historians of the 20th century, put it in 1970, the spade of the archeologist can be mightier than the ...

With climate change in our own era becoming increasingly evident, it's natural to wonder how our ancestors may have dealt with similar environmental circumstances. New research methods and ...

A new article explores how an ancient culture dealt with variable environments. With climate change in our own era becoming increasingly evident, it's natural to wonder how our ancestors may have ...