The culprit behind the mysterious disappearance of one of the most advanced urban civilizations at the time, contemporaries ...

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

New research suggests the Indus Valley Civilization was reshaped by centuries of river drought, migration, and climate stress ...

A series of century-scale droughts may have quietly reshaped one of the world’s earliest urban civilizations. New climate ...

Long drought cycles reshaped settlement choices in the Indus region. These climate stresses likely contributed to its slow collapse. A series of severe droughts, each extending for more than 85 years, ...

A series of severe, decades-long droughts ushered the end of the Indus Valley Civilization, one of the world's oldest civilizations, a new study finds.

The Indus Valley Civilization, now referred to as the Sindhu-Saraswati civilization by Indian historians, peaked between 5,000 and 3,500 years ago across modern-day northwest India and Pakistan. Their ...

Successive major droughts, each lasting longer than 85 years, were likely a key factor in the eventual fall of the Indus Valley Civilization, according to a paper published in Communications Earth & ...

Climate warming and severe droughts dealt a death blow to the Indus Valley Civilisation, a mysterious urban culture that flourished around 4000 years ago in what is now Pakistan and India. This ...

Research shows the Indus Valley Civilization declined due to repeated century-long droughts that reduced rainfall, strained ...

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