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 has long stood as one of humanity’s great enigmas, a Bronze Age society that mastered urban planning, long-distance trade and sophisticated water management, then faded ...

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 ...

Seals with the signs and symbols of the Indus Valley civilization are waiting to be deciphered. Gary Todd via Wikimedia Commons under CC0 1.0 More than 5,300 years ago, a civilization emerged along ...

Successive major droughts, each lasting longer than 85 years, were likely a key factor in the eventual fall of the Indus Valley Civilization, according to a paper published in Communications Earth & ...

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 ...