The decline of Bronze-Age civilizations in Egypt, Greece and Mesopotamia has been attributed to a long-term drought that began around 2000 BC. Now paleoclimatologists propose that a similar fate was ...

JAISALMER: Red shards glinting in desert sand. A kiln with a central column, long buried. Chert blades and terracotta cakes from a civilisation 4,500 years old. History has stirred beneath the dunes ...

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 ...

His work is detailed in books like “The Bhilsa Topes” (1854) and “The Ancient Geography of India” (1871), where he mapped historical sites. His excavation reports in “Archaeological Survey of India ...

At its height, the Indus Valley civilization was one of the most advanced societies on Earth. In cities such as Harappa, people lived in multistorey brick houses laid out along gridded streets. They ...

Scientists believe they’ve cracked one of the oldest mysteries of a disappearing civilization. The culprit? Climate change. Nearly 5,000 years ago the Harappan or Indus people created a society on the ...

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 ...

What is the origin of the Indus River system? The Indus River is one of Asia's longest river systems. It originated in Mansarovar in Tibet at an elevation of 5182 metres and flows about 2880 km. The ...