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  1. How centuries of drought doomed the Indus Valley Civilization, one of the world’s oldest civilizations

    A new study provides the strongest evidence yet that long, recurring droughts played a decisive role in reshaping — and ultimately weakening — the Indus Valley Civilization, one of the world’s earliest urban societies. Flourishing between roughly 5,000 and 3,500 years ago...

    More info: archaeologymag.com/2025/11/how

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  2. $1 million prize offered to decipher 5,300-year-old Indus Valley script

    The government of Tamil Nadu has offered a $1-million reward for anyone who can decode the cryptic script of the Indus Valley Civilization (IVC), one of the world’s oldest urban cultures...

    More information: archaeologymag.com/2025/01/pri

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  3. Ancient genomes revealed the complex human interactions of the ancient western Tibetans

    Outside the Tibetan Plateau, the western Tibetan Plateau populations interacted with both South and Central Asian populations at least 2,000 years ago, and the South Asian-related genetic influence, despite being very limited, was from the Indus Valley Civilization (IVC) migrants in Central Asia instead of the IVC populations from the Indus Valley.

    ‘Ancient genomes revealed the complex human interactions of the ancient western Tibetans’ (2024) ScienceDirect. doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.04..

    #OpenAccess #OA #Reseach #DOI #Ancient #DNA #AncientDNA #Tibet #Population #History #IndusValleyCivilization #IVC #SouthAsia #Asia #CentralAsia #Science #STEM #Genetics #Paleoanthropology #Anthropology @science @anthropology

  4. Ucha Pind (meaning Village on a Mound) Sanghol is a village between #Chandigarh & #Ludhiana in #Punjab #India
    Described as a #IndusValleyCivilization #Harappa site (c2500 BCE).
    However, excavations of the site has revealed a constant human habitation upto 5th century AD.
    A #Buddhist stupa, #Hindu & #Jain artefacts etc like this c2nd cent. AD #Kushan panel of a 'Yakshi piggyback riding a Yaksha'.

    #AncientIndia #Art #Religion #IndianMythology #IndianHertitage #IndianHistory #Heritage #History

  5. Ucha Pind (meaning Village on a Mound) Sanghol is a village between #Chandigarh & #Ludhiana in #Punjab #India
    Described as a #IndusValleyCivilization #Harappa site (c2500 BCE).
    However, excavations of the site has revealed a constant human habitation upto 5th century AD.
    A #Buddhist stupa, #Hindu & #Jain artefacts etc like this c2nd cent. AD #Kushan panel of a 'Yakshi piggyback riding a Yaksha'.

    #AncientIndia #Art #Religion #IndianMythology #IndianHertitage #IndianHistory #Heritage #History