An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link A mysterious script could help solve the mysteries of one of humanity's oldest civilizations. The Indus River Valley civilization site is as ...

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 ...

The Indus Valley Civilization built advanced cities, developed complex trade networks, and left behind thousands of inscriptions—but their language remains one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in ...

Indiana Jones wannabes, your time has come. A local government in India is offering a $1 million prize to the first person who cracks the code of an ancient script found in the ruins of one of the ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...