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 built advanced cities, developed complex trade networks, and left behind thousands of inscriptions—but their language remains one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link A mysterious script could help solve the mysteries of one of humanity's oldest civilizations. The Indus River Valley civilization site is as ...

This article is part of an ongoing series surveying archeological and historical sites across Asia. For the introduction to this series, please see here. As mentioned in the introductory article to ...

Excerpted with permission from the publisher The Indus: Lost Civilizations, Andrew Robinson, published by‎ Macmillan, an ...

Researchers have successfully sequenced the first genome of an individual from the Harappan civilization, also called the Indus Valley Civilization (IVC). The DNA, which belongs to an individual who ...

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 ...

The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist, and is ...

Figure 1. 'Unicorn' stamp seal and modern impression. Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art Open Access/Public domain In my previous post, I discussed the Indian subcontinent's first civilization and ...