The culprit behind the mysterious disappearance of one of the most advanced urban civilizations at the time, contemporaries ...

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

For more than a century, the ancient Indus script has mystified researchers. Left behind by the Indus Valley civilization, which emerged more than five millennia ago in present-day India and Pakistan, ...

A series of century-scale droughts may have quietly reshaped one of the world’s earliest urban civilizations. New climate ...

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 Valley Civilization arose about 5,000 years ago. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. "The Indus Valley Civilization, also ...

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 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 ...

Research shows the Indus Valley Civilization declined due to repeated century-long droughts that reduced rainfall, strained resources, and pushed communities toward the Indus River, causing a slow, ...

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 ...