As the Indus gains geopolitical significance, Pakistan is using ancient heritage to reshape its global image and national narrative.

Four thousand years ago, the sprawling Indus valley civilization dominated the area of modern-day India and Pakistan. Although considered one of the world’s earliest civilizations and the subject of ...

Female figurine of the Mature Harappan period, 2700–2000 BCE, Indus civilization. Credit: Wikipedia/National Museum, New Delhi. The pen might be mightier than a sword but, as Ramesh Chandra Majumdar, ...

Excerpted with permission from the publisher The Indus: Lost Civilizations, Andrew Robinson, published by‎ Macmillan, an imprint of PanMacmillan India. Trade in the Indus civilization was an ...

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 ...

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Pakistan has, throughout its history, been desperate to create an identity for itself. Its history books have been modified ...

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 ...

NEW DELHI – For thousands of years, Harappa, Mohenjo-Daro, and Lothal, the great cities of the Indus Valley Civilization, were the center of one of the world’s earliest and most advanced urban ...

The climate of South Asia is not kind to ancient DNA. It is hot and it rains. In monsoon season, water seeps into ancient bones in the ground, degrading the old genetic material. So by the time ...

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 ...