A new study argues the Indus Civilization may have been the most egalitarian society in the ancient world—but scholars are ...

New research reveals that the 4,000-year-old city of Mohenjo-daro defied the 'rules' of history by becoming more equal as it became more successful.

A series of century-scale droughts may have quietly reshaped one of the world’s earliest urban civilizations. New climate reconstructions show that the Indus Valley Civilization endured repeated long ...

The Indus Valley Civilization built some of the world’s earliest cities, developed advanced urban planning, and maintained long-distance trade networks across ancient Asia. Yet despite these ...

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 ...