Long before municipal water treatment plants and chlorination, ancient societies faced the same essential challenge we ...

Explanation: The Great Bath, a large water tank with a sophisticated drainage system, was discovered in Mohenjo-daro and likely used for ritual bathing.

The pen might be mightier than a sword but, as Ramesh Chandra Majumdar, one of India’s leading historians of the 20th century, put it in 1970, the spade of the archeologist can be mightier than the ...

This article is part of an ongoing series surveying archeological and historical sites across Asia. For the introduction to this series, please see here. As mentioned in the introductory article to ...

Four thousand years ago, the sprawling Indus valley civilization dominated the area of modern-day India and Pakistan. Although considered one of the world’s earliest civilizations and the subject of ...