Scientists once believed that a long-dried-up river in the Himalayas served as the main water source for the Indus Valley Civilization, also known as the Harappan Civilization, which existed from 5300 ...

A Sino-Russian archaeological team announced on earlier this month that the original settlements on both banks of the Heilongjiang (Amur) River were very similar and the region may have been an ...

Rivers are the cradle of human civilization. From the cuneiform writing of Euphrates and Tigris to the pyramids along the Nile, and from the urban grids of the Indus to the rice cultivation heights of ...

Welcome to the first episode of a collaboration with a bunch of History YouTubers: Discovery of India! The Indus Valley Civilization (also known as the Harappan Civilization) popped up around the ...

(MENAFN- PR Newswire) On September 17, the 2025 Yangtze River Civilization Forum was successfully convened in Chongqing. Centered around the theme "Bridging Rivers and Seas, Sharing Wisdom of ...

Cave stalagmite in Himalayas offers most detailed explanation for what led to decline of ancient Indus civilization, study says. Photo from Jed Owen via Unsplash Four thousand years ago, the sprawling ...

Ancient DNA evidence reveals that the people of the mysterious and complex Indus Valley Civilization are genetically linked to modern South Asians today. The same gene sequences, drawn from a single ...

The chief minister of Tamil Nadu, a state in India, announced a prize of $1 million for anyone who can decipher the ancient script of the Indus Valley Civilization. The announcement was made during ...

The climate of South Asia is not kind to ancient DNA. It is hot and it rains. In monsoon season, water seeps into ancient bones in the ground, degrading the old genetic material. So by the time ...

While Genghis Khan and Mongol invasion is often blamed for the fall of Central Asia's medieval river civilizations, new research shows it may have been down to climate change. Researchers conducted ...