Islamabad — Its millennia-old clay walls have borne silent witness to countless floods in the Indus River valley over the centuries, but officials say this year's catastrophic monsoon season could ...
Some of the walls of Mohenjo-Daro have been destroyed as a result of Pakistan's historic flooding. The Cultural, Tourism, Antiquities, and Archives Department of the Sindh province estimated that ...
The ancient archaeological site of Mohenjo-daro is now in danger of being destroyed in flood-devastated Pakistan, where an unprecedented monsoon season has claimed more than 1,300 lives and left ...
So, he sank a trial trench into what the locals called Mohenjo Daro, “the Mound of the Dead Men”. Within days he pulled out square steatite seals bearing a horned figure seated in yoga posture and an ...
Archaeologists in Pakistan have unearthed an extremely rare hoard of copper coins, thought to be more than 2,000 years old, from the ruins of a Buddhist shrine built at the even more ancient site of ...
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In the gaze of a 4,000-year-old monkey

Among many fascinating finds from Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa, the diminutive monkey figurine is undoubtedly the most captivating object on display at the Indus Gallery, in the National Museum of ...
In the deserts of the Sindh region lies Mohenjo Daro, a city of around 40,000 people built c. 2500 BCE and abandoned by around 1700 BCE—one of the greatest urban centres of the ancient world. The ...
ISLAMABAD (AP) — In flood-stricken Pakistan where an unprecedented monsoon season has killed hundreds of people, the rains now threaten a famed archeological site dating back 4,500 years, the site’s ...
LONDON (Reuters) - One of the world's earliest cities has been brought back to life in one of Bollywood's newest films, "Mohenjo Daro", which re-imagines life in 2016 B.C. in an Indus Valley ...
Pakistan has a rather long or a rather short history, depending on how you look at things. Pakistan is part of the history of India, in the older, pre-nation state sense of the term “India,” one of ...
MOHENJO DARO, Pakistan, May 27 (Reuters) - Temperatures rose above 52 degrees Celsius (125.6 degrees Fahrenheit) in Pakistan’s southern province of Sindh, the highest reading of the summer and close ...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — In flood-stricken Pakistan where an unprecedented monsoon season has killed hundreds of people, the rains now threaten a famed archeological site dating back 4,500 years, the ...