Scientists once believed that a long-dried-up river in the Himalayas served as the main water source for the Indus Valley Civilization, also known as the Harappan Civilization, which existed from 5300 ...

A Sino-Russian archaeological team announced on earlier this month that the original settlements on both banks of the Heilongjiang (Amur) River were very similar and the region may have been an ...

The Foundation of Ancient Egyptian Civilization Here's something that might surprise you: ancient Egyptians called the river "Ar" or "Aur," meaning "black," a reference to the rich, dark sediment that ...

Rivers are the cradle of human civilization. From the cuneiform writing of Euphrates and Tigris to the pyramids along the Nile, and from the urban grids of the Indus to the rice cultivation heights of ...

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 ...

The 4,000-year-old Indus Valley civilization that thrived on the Indo-Pak border might have been a literate society which used a script close to present day languages. NEW YORK: The 4,000-year-old ...

2002-03-04 04:00:00 PDT Yinchuan, China-- The Yellow River, once the cradle of Chinese civilization and the inspiration of poetry, is on the verge of becoming a vast ditch, experts say. All along the ...

While Genghis Khan and Mongol invasion is often blamed for the fall of Central Asia's medieval river civilizations, new research shows it may have been down to climate change. Researchers conducted ...

The Kissimmee River valley steamboats, writes Florida Cracker historian Lawrence E. Will, were “always just one jump ahead of civilization.” Will describes the old stern-wheel steamers as “wet-tail” ...