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The Indus Valley (Harappan) Civilization | The Most Mysterious Ancient Civilization

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 ...
The Diplomat

100 Years of the Discovery of the Indus Valley Civilization: How It Shaped Indian Politics

Female figurine of the Mature Harappan period, 2700–2000 BCE, Indus civilization. Credit: Wikipedia/National Museum, New Delhi. The pen might be mightier than a sword but, as Ramesh Chandra Majumdar, ...
Science Daily

Scientists finally uncovered why the Indus Valley Civilization collapsed

A series of century-scale droughts may have quietly reshaped one of the world’s earliest urban civilizations. New climate reconstructions show that the Indus Valley Civilization endured repeated long ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Officials Are Offering $1 Million to Anyone Who Can Decode This Ancient Script

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 ...
CNN

No one knows what this ancient script says. Now there’s a $1 million prize to crack the code

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 ...