Nurtured by the alluvial planes of the Indus river, the Indus Valley hosted ... it would vastly change our understanding of the ancient civilizations of the Indian subcontinent.

These farmers lived together in villages which grew over time into large ancient cities, like Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro. The Indus people needed river water to drink, wash and to irrigate their fields.

More than 5,300 years ago, a civilization emerged along the lush basins of the Indus River ... of the ancient Indus script, the government of Tamil Nadu, a state in southern India, announced ...

Harappa was an ancient urban settlement ... archaeologists discovered traces of India's earliest civilization, one that developed in the fertile Indus River Valley between 3000 and 1900 BCE.

Although the majority of the Indus River flows through Pakistan, it originates in Tibet and has a significant part of its basin in India. The river played a vital role in the ancient Indus Valley ...