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Some ancient relics never cease to pique the interest of modern societies. Sample this: A 4,500-year-old metal figurine, one of the most critical excavations related to the Indus Valley Civilization — ...

More than 4,000 years ago, the Harappa culture thrived in the Indus River Valley of what is now modern Pakistan and northwestern India, where they built sophisticated cities, invented sewage systems ...

In the mid-1850s, a few years after the British annexation of the Punjab, some railway builders stumbled upon an ancient mound of terracotta bricks at Harappa in the valley of the Ravi. Despite ...

Do you know that the Indus civilisation script is so difficult to decode, since the texts are very short and written in an unknown language? What makes this script hardest to understand and decipher ...

We didn’t stumble upon one of the world’s oldest urban civilisations with a grand expedition. It started with a modern infrastructure project and a giant pile of old bricks. In the mid-19th century, ...