A new study argues the Indus Civilization may have been the most egalitarian society in the ancient world—but scholars are ...
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 ...
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 ...
At its peak, the ancient Indus River Valley civilization featured gridded streets, multistory brick homes, flush toilets and bustling shops. Its people traded gold, precious stones and items such as ...
Climate change has ended civilizations before — slowly, silently, and irreversibly. 4,000 years later, scientists have finally pieced together the truth: The Indus Valley Civilisation did not collapse ...
Seals with the signs and symbols of the Indus Valley civilization are waiting to be deciphered. Gary Todd via Wikimedia Commons under CC0 1.0 More than 5,300 years ago, a civilization emerged along ...
In our May 2026 issue, National Geographic takes readers inside the wonder and mystery of Pakistan’s ancient city of Mohenjo Daro and the Indus Valley Civilization that built it nearly 5,000 years ago ...
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