The Indus Valley Civilisation flourished across what is now Pakistan and north-western India, becoming one of the world's ...

The conventional narrative places Mesopotamia at the beginning of civilisation, followed by Egypt, Greece and Rome. India ...

Islamabad: Pakistan has sought to present the Indus Valley Civilisation, regarded as one of the world's earliest ...

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 ...

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 ...

New research on the '4.2 ka BP climatic event' provides rich insights into how rainfall in the northwest of South Asia changed over the critical period between 5400 and 3000 years ago. Climate change ...

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

A Rochester Institute of Technology researcher developed a mathematical method that shows climate change likely caused the rise and fall of an ancient civilization. In an article recently featured in ...

The Indus or Harappan Civilisation was a Bronze Age society that developed mainly in the northwestern regions of South Asia from 5300 to 3300 years ago, at about the same time as urban civilisations ...

RECAP: Part I discussed how unstable modern claims become when ancient geographical terms are treated as national property.

The climate of South Asia is not kind to ancient DNA. It is hot and it rains. In monsoon season, water seeps into ancient bones in the ground, degrading the old genetic material. So by the time ...

The Indus Valley Civilisation did not develop adjacent to a large river, as has been believed till now, but thrived and prospered along the remnants of an ancient river — a paleochannel — according to ...