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 research suggests the Indus Valley Civilisation could be far older than previously believed, not just by a few centuries, but by thousands of years. Experts studying pottery, tools, and animal ...

The civilisation’s previously accepted timeline was around 2600 BC, but using radiocarbon dating on pottery fragments and animal remains they have found at the site, Archaeological Survey of India ...

The fate of the ancient Indus Valley Civilization has long captivated scholars, yet the precise reasons behind its decline have remained elusive. A recent climate study offers fresh insight, placing ...

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 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 ...

Four thousand years ago, the sprawling Indus valley civilization dominated the area of modern-day India and Pakistan. Although considered one of the world’s earliest civilizations and the subject of ...