Nurtured by the alluvial planes of the Indus river, the Indus Valley hosted one of the world's oldest urban cultures. From 3300 to 1700 BC, the Indus people built impressive cities like Mohenjo-daro ...

Researchers have managed to decode an ancient script that scholars have been unable to understand for decades. In a study published in the journal Transactions of the Philological Society, a team of ...

The seal of Afghanistan's Bank depicts an image from an ancient Greek coin and is overlaid on every banknote of the Central ...

For more than a century, the ancient Indus script has mystified researchers. Left behind by the Indus Valley civilization, which emerged more than five millennia ago in present-day India and Pakistan, ...

Researchers have partially deciphered the "unknown Kushan script" — a writing system that has puzzled linguists since it was first found in the 1950s. The researchers decoded the ancient text using ...

Ancient Greece is traditionally remembered for its philosophy, mythology, and great buildings—but there's a lesser-known side that hardly finds its way into textbooks. Under the neat image is a world ...

South Asia was once the eastern part of the Ancient Greek world, a pivotal yet little explored part of the Greek empire and cultural sphere.