The Indus Valley civilization, located in present-day Pakistan and India, went through four periods of intense drought, which ...

Climate simulations suggest that long droughts slowly pushed the Indus Valley Civilization to relocate, reorganize, and ...

Climate data offers clues to what might have happened to people of the Indus River Valley and how that might relate to our own warming world.

A new scientific study suggests that the sudden collapse of the ancient Indus River Valley civilization, known for its ...

Successive major droughts, each lasting longer than 85 years, were likely a key factor in the eventual fall of the Indus ...

Ancient Indus Valley Civilization's decline was driven by prolonged droughts, not sudden catastrophe. New climate studies ...

The Indus Valley Civilization, one of the world's oldest, was a thriving society in what is now Pakistan and northwest India for some 2,000 years. Then it was gone—without signs of war or conquest. A ...

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 ...

2013-04-06T21:52:17-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/cb6/20130406215259003_hd.jpgJerry Howard talked about the Hohokam civilization and how they lived in the ...

New climate research suggests centuries-long river droughts weakened one of the world’s earliest urban societies — and offers a warning for a warming world today.

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 ...