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 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 ...

For over a century, historians and archaeologists have debated why the Indus Valley Civilization one of the world's earliest and most sophisticated urban cultures gradually declined. A new climate ...

Over the decades, archaeologists have turned up a great many artifacts from the Indus civilization, including stamp sealings, amulets and small tablets. Robert Harding / Photo Library The Indus ...

Prefatory note -- Introductory -- The Indus civilization -- After the Indus civilization -- The Ganges basin -- The north-west frontier -- Eastern, central, and ...

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 ...

Recent emphasis on climate science has impacted how we think about ancient civilizations. Long-held theories about the collapse of ancient civilizations are starting to change. Climate change wasn't ...