British and Australian envoys have recently highlighted Pakistan's heritage through funding and a Taxila visit. The timing is ...

Long before ancient Rome, the cities of the Indus Valley civilization mastered urban planning and public hygiene. An ordered and modern society that vanished into mystery, leaving few written traces.

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

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 ...

Pakistan is embracing the Indus Valley Civilisation as part of its national identity in a big way. It's a notable shift for a ...

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 civilization of Indus River Valley is considered one of the three earliest civilizations in world history, along with Mesopotamia and Egypt. Bigger geographically than those two as it unfolded ...

Do you know that the Indus civilisation script is so difficult to decode, since the texts are very short and written in an unknown language? What makes this script hardest to understand and decipher ...

At its peak, the ancient Indus River Valley civilization featured gridded streets, multistory brick homes, flush toilets and bustling shops. Its people traded gold, precious stones and items such as ...