The mysterious fall of the largest of the world's earliest urban civilizations nearly 4,000 years ago in what is now India, Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh now appears to have a key culprit — ancient ...

Climate change is not just a modern dilemma; it’s a force that has reshaped the trajectory of human history time and again.

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

The slow eastward migration of monsoons across the Asian continent initially supported the formation of the Harappan civilization in the Indus valley by allowing production of large agricultural ...

The author is assistant professor (History) at the Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, Delhi University. It has been roughly more than 100 years, since the discovery of the mighty civilization on the banks ...

When archaeologist KN Dikshit was a fresh-faced undergraduate, in 1960, a remarkable discovery pushed back the origin of civilization in the Indus River Valley by some 500 years. Now, he claims to ...

In the mid-1850s, a few years after the British annexation of the Punjab, some railway builders stumbled upon an ancient mound of terracotta bricks at Harappa in the valley of the Ravi. Despite ...

The Maya is perhaps one of the most well-known lost civilizations in history, which spanned across modern-day Central America. At its peak, the Maya were acknowledged for their advanced urbanization, ...

Civilization breed horses, or did horses arrive with the Indo-Aryans? This long-standing question has major implications for ...

Some ancient relics never cease to pique the interest of modern societies. Sample this: A 4,500-year-old metal figurine, one of the most critical excavations related to the Indus Valley Civilization — ...