Banerjee, an intrepid explorer and talented epigraphist, worked for the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) when the country ...

Mohenjo Daro, an ancient city of the Indus Valley Civilization, thrived around 2500 BCE in Pakistan. Rediscovered in 1919, its ruins and artifacts reveal the lives of its 40,000 inhabitants and ...

The fall of a great civilization is never a sudden explosion; it’s a slow, tragic erosion. The world's oldest societies— ...

Here, we explore six notable civilizations that have collapsed, shedding light on some of the causes behind their demise and ...

One of the first cetaceans, Pakicetus, was a goat-sized creature that lived along the banks of lakes and rivers in present-day Pakistan. Although it looked nothing like a whale, Pakicetus ...

At its height, the ancient city of Hattuşa, capital of the Hittite civilization, must have been awe-inspiring. Built into a steep hillside in what is today central Türkiye, the city was ringed ...

Despite looking much like previously unearthed copper cymbals from a Bronze Age civilization in what’s now Pakistan’s Indus ... indicate that contact between ancient communities on both ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered the remains of a lost city dating back thousands of years – and newfound evidence suggests it may be the capital of a once-thriving civilization. The recent ...

A discovery in 2015 suggested the ancient civilization at Teotihuacan used the temple to 'look into the supernatural world.' Researcher found 'large quantities' of the rare and toxic liquid ...