New research suggests the Indus Valley Civilization was reshaped by centuries of river drought, migration, and climate stress.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A fish under a roof. A stick figure without a head. A series of lines that look like a garden rake. These symbols are part of an entirely undeciphered script from a sophisticated ancient civilization ...

At its height, the Indus Valley civilization was one of the most advanced societies on Earth. In cities such as Harappa, people lived in multistorey brick houses laid out along gridded streets. They ...

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 ...

Ancient Indus Valley Civilization's decline was driven by prolonged droughts, not sudden catastrophe. New climate studies reveal centuries of drying rivers and water stress forced gradual abandonment ...

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 ...