A prize offered by an Indian state leader is intended to shed light on a Bronze Age civilization — and settle a cultural ...

Mesopotamia's trade networks collapsed and ... We know that only the cities fell into ruins. Farmers in the Indus Valley went on living in their villages and working on their farms, but the ...

The Harappan Civilisation, also known as the Indus Valley Civilisation, is one of the most important topics for the UPSC Civil Services Examination (CSE) syllabus. Candidates who are preparing for the ...

Bahata Ansumali (in pic), a software technologist turned researcher, was in town recently for the Kolkata Literary Meet.

T he 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 ...

Imagine the great cities of the world gone forever. London has slowly disappeared, submerged under the swollen Thames. Cairo, Los Angeles and Sydney have all been abandoned to drought and desert.

The undeciphered language likely comes from an ancient civilization, and understanding it could provide valuable insights ...

Larger than either the Egyptian or Mesopotamian civilizations of the same period, the population of the Indus Valley (or Harappan) Civilization is estimated at anywhere between two and five ...

A close look at how we moved from simple nomadic lifestyles to create flourishing river valley civilizations across Mesopotamia, Ancient Egypt, Indus Valley and China. Stage 3 HSIE and Stage 4 ...

For modern technology to crack the Indus Valley script, we need more textual ... dating back to 3,500 BCE have been discovered in Mesopotamia, but there aren’t enough scholars alive to decipher ...

Tamil Nadu CM offers $1M prize for deciphering Indus Valley script; study reveals possible cultural exchanges.