Rather than being felled by a single disaster, the researchers argue it was this "repeated, long, and intensifying" cycle of ...

Long drought cycles reshaped settlement choices in the Indus region. These climate stresses likely contributed to its slow ...

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

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 study shows how a long river drought triggered a metamorphosis of Harappan civilization, reshaping settlements as ...

Archaeologist Vijay Kumar has revealed the amazing finding of 4500-year-old copper harpoons in India that are decorated with human faces. A distinctive feature of the Ochre Coloured Pottery (OCP) ...

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

This is the second part of an ongoing series, which traces the origins of India’s people and civilization. The first part can be found here: Unraveled: Where Indians Come From, Part 1. As discussed in ...

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