The culprit behind the mysterious disappearance of one of the most advanced urban civilizations at the time, contemporaries to Mesopotamians and Egyptians, has finally been identified: a series of ...

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 ...

Harappa was one of the large cities created by the Indus Valley civilization. Smn121 via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0 What happened to the Indus Valley civilization? The culture, also known as ...

Climate warming and severe droughts dealt a death blow to the Indus Valley Civilisation, a mysterious urban culture that flourished around 4000 years ago in what is now Pakistan and India. This ...

A mysterious puzzle is inscribed on small stones and clay – a compact script that has stayed sealed for thousands of years. The signs and symbols in the script look neat and tidy, yet their meaning ...

American hedge fund firm Indus Capital Partners has hired a Japan representative to head its Tokyo office, adding to a number of new leadership hires by foreign financial firms in the capital city.

On this day in 1822, an ”over-the-top, histrionic, melodramatic figure,” Jean-François Champollion, announced his decipherment of the Rosetta Stone, a stele from Ptolemaic Egypt inscribed with a ...

Scripts Analyzed Linear A (Minoan) - 3,500 years old, Musical notation system Khitan Large Script - 1,000 years old, Hierarchical frequency system Proto-Elamite - 5,000 years old, Angular geometric ...

The effects of climate change in the Indus Basin risk being weaponized in the ongoing India-Pakistan conflict. From July to August, monsoon rains strike South Asia, often bringing catastrophe rather ...

Tony Gilroy feared releasing the scripts to the 'Star Wars' series to avoid them being consumed by generative AI models—but one of the finest hours of 'Andor' has had its screenplay released. Reading ...

If you’re an avid podcast fan, you’ll notice that there are (broadly speaking) two types of shows: non-narrative and narrative. Non-narrative podcasts are more freewheeling, constructed around ...