Nurtured by the alluvial planes of the Indus river, the Indus Valley hosted one of the world's oldest urban cultures. From 3300 to 1700 BC, the Indus people built impressive cities like Mohenjo-daro ...

The civilisation in the northwestern parts of South Asia existed between 2600 BCE and 1900 BCE covering much of modern-day Pakistan, northwestern India and northeast Afghanistan. An ancient script ...

Decoding ancient scripts is a remarkable journey into humanity’s past, unearthing forgotten tales and cultures. The cryptic symbols, etched onto stone, parchment, or clay, often remain as the only ...

LONDON, Jan 25: You don’t need to buy a lottery ticket to win a million dollars, thanks to an offer from Tamil Nadu, a state in southern India. But there’s a catch: you’ll need to decipher a ...

The centenary of the publication of an article by archaeologist John Marshall on the discovery of the Indus Valley Civilisation was last month remembered by lovers of history. On September 20, the day ...

Scholars have recently question whether ancient Indus inscriptions code for language. American and Indian scientists used statistics to show that the 4,500-year-old Indus symbols' pattern follows that ...

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