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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists once believed that a long-dried-up river in the Himalayas served as the main water source for the Indus Valley Civilization, also known as the Harappan Civilization, which existed from 5300 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A series of severe, decades-long droughts ushered the end of the Indus Valley Civilization, one of the world's oldest civilizations, a new study finds. This Indus Valley Civilization (also known as ...

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 in Communications Earth & Environment ...

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 ...