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

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 ...

The Indus Valley Civilization is one of the many ancient civilizations that once existed. It was a mirror into modern yet sustainable living. It continues to fascinate archaeologists and history ...

Scientists have sequenced the genome of an individual that lived four to five millennia ago and was part of the Harappan civilization, which is also referred to as the Indus Valley Civilization (IVC).

Researchers have successfully sequenced the first genome of an individual from the Harappan civilization, also called the Indus Valley Civilization (IVC). The DNA, which belongs to an individual who ...

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 ...

The passing of Shereen Ratnagar marks the end of an era in Indian archaeology and historical scholarship. Reports of her demise on 25 May 2026, accompanied by tributes from scholars and academic ...

New research reveals that the 4,000-year-old city of Mohenjo-daro defied the 'rules' of history by becoming more equal as it became more successful.

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 ...

From village settlements to planned cities, the Indus Valley Civilisation marked the beginning of organised urban life in the ...

There were more than 1,400 towns and cities in the Indus Valley. The names Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro were given to the cities in later times. We do not know what the Indus people called their cities, ...