A mysterious script could help solve the mysteries of one of humanity's oldest civilizations. The Indus River Valley civilization site is as important to archaeologists as ancient Mesopotamia and ...

The Indus Valley Civilization was one of the great urban civilizations of the ancient world, building sophisticated cities, extensive trade networks, and advanced systems of planning more than four ...

The Rosetta Stone allowed 19th century scholars to translate symbols left by an ancient civilization and thus decipher the meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphics. But the symbols found on many other ...

Four-thousand years ago, an urban civilization lived and traded on what is now the border between Pakistan and India. During the past century, thousands of artifacts bearing hieroglyphics left by this ...

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 ...

The Indus script has been called, with irony, the most deciphered script in the world. The first claim to a decipherment, based on the Sumerian language, was published as early as 1925. More than a ...

Along the Indus River in what is now known as northwest India and Pakistan, a civilization emerged more than 5,300 years ago.

Reprint of an article in Scientific Americans, March 1983. From African presence in early Asia, edited by Runoko Rashidi, a special issue of the Journal of African civilizations. siris_sil_694382 ...

Figure 1. 'Unicorn' stamp seal and modern impression. Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art Open Access/Public domain In my previous post, I discussed the Indian subcontinent's first civilization and ...