We still do not have any conclusive knowledge of the remote-ancient past of Tamil and several other indigenous languages in existence during the second millennium BC in the Eastern parts of India.

It is a riddle that has confounded scholars for over a century. And now it carries a handsome cash prize: $1 million for anyone who can decipher the script of the ancient Indus Valley civilization.

Spanning 3300 B.C.E. to 1300 B.C.E, the Indus Valley civilization represents one of the area’s earliest societies, flourishing the fertile plains of the Indus River.

Mohenjo-Daro (Mound of the Dead Men) is one of the most significant settlements of the Indus Valley Civilization and among the earliest major cities in the world, ... while the Sikh Gallery has rare ...

Indus Valley. In the Indus River valley of Pakistan and northwest India, archaeologists have discovered symbols on various objects that are believed to be a form of writing. This ancient civilization, ...

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 ...

This civilization, also known as the Harappan Civilization, was uncovered in Punjab (now Pakistan) along the banks of the Ravi River. In 1922, the remains of Mohenjo-daro, the largest city of the ...

Prehistoric Civilization of the Indus Valley by K.N. Dikshit is a little known but well-written and surprisingly relevant summary of what was known about the ancient Indus civilization after the ...

Thanks to this, he was able to find and uncover about fifty sites, including the ruins of Harappa, a city of the Indus Valley Civilization, ... The bulk of what he unearthed was in the India Museum, ...

The Indus Valley Civilization (IVC), or Harappan Civilization, as it came to be called, also had extensive terrestrial and maritime trade connections with, among others, Central Asia, Mesopotamia ...