New research suggests that the once mighty and ancient Indus Valley civilization may have ended due to climate change, which caused mass migration as a direct result. This civilization was based ...

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).

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 ...

A new scientific study suggests that the sudden collapse of the ancient Indus River Valley civilization, known for its advanced urban planning, brick buildings, early plumbing systems and vibrant ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists once believed that a long-dried-up river in the Himalayas served as the main water source for the Indus Valley Civilization, also known as the Harappan Civilization, which existed from 5300 ...