Do you know that the Indus civilisation script is so difficult to decode, since the texts are very short and written in an ...

A tiny seal from Mohenjo-daro has reignited a century-old debate over whether the Indus civilisation shares a direct cultural ...

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

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 ...

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 Ministry of Culture's post on a 4,500-year-old terracotta dice from the Indus-Saraswati Civilisation drew wide attention ...

Ancient DNA evidence reveals that the people of the mysterious and complex Indus Valley Civilization are genetically linked to modern South Asians today. The same gene sequences, drawn from a single ...

A computer scientist's cryptographic analysis of the Pashupati Seal suggests its inscription is an ancient invocation to Lord Shiva, aligning with Mahabharata descriptions. This discovery, amplified ...

A new article explores how an ancient culture dealt with variable environments. With climate change in our own era becoming increasingly evident, it's natural to wonder how our ancestors may have ...

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 ...