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 ...

The civilisation’s previously accepted timeline was around 2600 BC, but using radiocarbon dating on pottery fragments and animal remains they have found at the site, Archaeological Survey of India ...

NEW DELHI – For thousands of years, Harappa, Mohenjo-Daro, and Lothal, the great cities of the Indus Valley Civilization, were the center of one of the world’s earliest and most advanced urban ...

A new scientific study suggests that the sudden collapse of the ancient Indus River Valley civilization, known for its advanced urban planning, brick buildings, early plumbing systems and vibrant ...

The Indus Valley Civilisation probably didn’t disappear all at once. New research points to a long stretch of repeated droughts that may have slowly weakened one of the world’s earliest urban ...

The Indus Valley Civilization was one of the most sophisticated societies of the ancient world, with planned cities, advanced drainage systems, long-distance trade networks, and possibly even a ...

Paleoclimatologists have often attributed the downfall of civilizations in Greece, Mesopotamia, and Egypt to a drought that started in 2000 BC, and they are of the belief that the Indus Valley ...

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 ...