Mohenjo-daro, the planned Bronze Age city of the Indus Civilisation in what is now Sindh, Pakistan, scored a Gini coefficient ...

For decades, the dominant explanation for the collapse of the Bronze Age Harappan civilisation centred on climate change: a weakening of the monsoon rains that sustained its great cities. New evidence ...

Mesopotamia and the Indus civilization were both urban civilizations with large, densely populated and planned cities, 6000–1990 BCE. A new thesis in archaeology points out that the ancient Indus ...

At its peak, the ancient Indus River Valley civilization featured gridded streets, multistory brick homes, flush toilets and bustling shops. Its people traded gold, precious stones and items such as ...

The 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 unfolded ...

Today, when we’ve unlocked the secrets of Egyptian hieroglyphs, Maya writing and hosts of far lesser known scripts, it seems as though there’s nothing left for enterprising epigraphers. Fear not, for ...

Evidence from a Haryana settlement shows farming continued from the Late Harappan period into the Painted Grey Ware age, ...

New lipid residue analyses have revealed a dominance of animal products, such as the meat of animals like pigs, cattle, buffalo, sheep and goat as well as dairy products, used in ancient ceramic ...

Any survey of Buddhist history has to cover the great ancient civilization of India: the Indus Valley Civilization. Though little is known of the civilizations today, archaeologists and other scholars ...

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 ...