Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia may be the best known of the first great urban cultures, but the largest was the Indus or Harappan civilization. This culture once extended over more than 386,000 ...

The Indus River flows out of the Himalayas, bringing fresh water to the warm, dry valley where the ancient city of Harappa first began to grow. The Harappan civilization is the namesake of this ...

covering an area larger than that of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia combined. The Indus Valley Civilization (IVC), or Harappan Civilization, as it came to be called, also had extensive terrestrial ...

Often called the Harappan Civilization, the Indus Valley is one of the most advanced ancient cultures known to mankind. But there’s more—many scholars believe that the Indus Valley was part of ...

A local government in India is offering a ... who can crack the code of an ancient script found in the ruins of the Indus Valley civilization known as Harappan. De Agostini via Getty Images ...

Harappa was an ancient urban settlement of the Bronze ... are considered part of the same vast civilization, the Indus Valley Civilization, which thrived from 2600 to 1900 BCE.

The first site to be excavated was Harappa which led to the ... inevitable to accept that the Bronze Age civilization of India is actually the most ancient on the face of earth and the ...

Cave stalagmite in Himalayas offers most detailed explanation for what led to decline of ancient Indus civilization ... Large Indus megacities, such as Harappa, began to decline as people moved ...