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 ...

The ruins of Mohenjo-daro. (Saqib Qayyum/Wikipedia/CC BY-SA 3.0) There was something notable about Mohenjo-daro, the largest city of the Indus civilization that settled across parts of Pakistan and ...

Over 5,000 years ago, the Indus Valley Civilization built advanced cities with plumbing, trade, and order—then vanished ...

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 ...

The civilization of Indus River Valley is considered one of the three earliest civilizations in world history, along with Mesopotamia and Egypt. Bigger geographically than those two as it unfolded ...

India is routinely counted among the world's oldest civilizations, but determining exactly where its story begins is surprisingly complicated. The Indus Valley Civilization was flourishing by around ...

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The pen might be mightier than a sword but, as Ramesh Chandra Majumdar, one of India’s leading historians of the 20th century, put it in 1970, the spade of the archeologist can be mightier than the ...

New lipid residue analyses have revealed a dominance of animal products, such as the meat of animals like pigs, cattle, buffalo, sheep and goat as well as dairy products, used in ancient ceramic ...

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 ...