The Indus Valley Civilization, in its mature phase, thrived for about 700 years, from around 2600 B.C. to 1900 B.C.

The Indus Valley Civilization was the largest of the ancient civilizations with a population of over 5 million people, over 1500 sites spanning an area of over 1 million square kilometers full of ...

But more interesting is what they did not have: no king, army, or religion. The Indus Valley Civilization undermines the Enlightenment idea of historical progress as global and linear.

World Indus valley civilization disappeared 3,600 years ago — we finally know why, study says By Aspen Pflughoeft May 2, 2023 12:35 PM ...

The Indus River Valley civilization site is as important to archaeologists as ancient Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt. Covering an 500,000 square mile region along the Indus River and its ...

The script has remained undeciphered for more than a century. Carved stone seal from the Indus Valley civilization (ca. 2,500 B.C.E.). Photo by DEA/G. Nimatallah/De Agostini via Getty Images.

Vasant Shinde, an archeologist at Deccan College whose team excavated I6113, says the attempts to get ancient DNA from Indus Valley–civilization sites have been a years-long learning process.

The Indus Valley Civilization (IVC), or Harappan Civilization, as it came to be called, also had extensive terrestrial and maritime trade connections with, among others, Central Asia, Mesopotamia ...