More than 5,300 years ago, a civilization emerged along the lush basins of the Indus River in present-day northwest India and ...

For more than a century, the ancient Indus script has mystified researchers. Left behind by the Indus Valley civilization, which emerged more than five millennia ago in present-day India and Pakistan, ...

A prize offered by an Indian state leader is intended to shed light on a Bronze Age civilization — and settle a cultural battle. By Pragati K.B. Reporting from New Delhi It is a riddle that has ...

A fish under a roof. A stick figure without a head. A series of lines that look like a garden rake. These symbols are part of an entirely undeciphered script from a sophisticated ancient civilization ...

New Delhi: The ambiguity associated with the context and usage of the Indus signs has made the problem of the Indus writing system more challenging. But this has not deterred scholars worldwide from ...

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 ...

Andrew Robinson reflects on the most tantalizing of all the undeciphered scripts — that used in the civilization of the Indus valley in the third millennium bc. The Indus civilization flourished for ...

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 ...

Seals with the signs and symbols of the Indus Valley civilization are waiting to be deciphered. Gary Todd via Wikimedia Commons under CC0 1.0 More than 5,300 years ago, a civilization emerged along ...