Climate data offers clues to what might have happened to people of the Indus River Valley and how that might relate to our own warming world.

Long drought cycles reshaped settlement choices in the Indus region. These climate stresses likely contributed to its slow ...

Rather than being felled by a single disaster, the researchers argue it was this "repeated, long, and intensifying" cycle of ...

Archaeologist Vijay Kumar has revealed the amazing finding of 4500-year-old copper harpoons in India that are decorated with human faces. A distinctive feature of the Ochre Coloured Pottery (OCP) ...

When archaeologist KN Dikshit was a fresh-faced undergraduate, in 1960, a remarkable discovery pushed back the origin of civilization in the Indus River Valley by some 500 years. Now, he claims to ...

Did an ancient Indian civilization help give rise to the Pharaohs? Maritime historian Nick Collins believes the Indus-Sarasvati region may have played a hidden but decisive role in shaping Pharaonic ...

India’s colourful heritage can be witnessed in its full glory at many destinations across the country. As one of the world’s oldest civilizations, India boasts a rich melting pot of religions, ...

This article is part of an ongoing series surveying archeological and historical sites across Asia. For the introduction to this series, please see here. As mentioned in the introductory article to ...