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

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

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 ultimately decline.

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

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

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, ...

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 ...

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

The findings indicate that successive major droughts were crucial in the disintegration of urban centers like Harappa.

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

In the mid-1850s, a few years after the British annexation of the Punjab, some railway builders stumbled upon an ancient mound of terracotta bricks at Harappa in the valley of the Ravi. Despite ...