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 ...

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 ...

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

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

A series of lengthy droughts brought about the fall of the Indus Valley Civilization, a new study finds.

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

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

Cave stalagmite in Himalayas offers most detailed explanation for what led to decline of ancient Indus civilization, study says. Photo from Jed Owen via Unsplash Four thousand years ago, the sprawling ...

International team reconstructed region’s ancient climate using paleoclimate evidence from caves, lakes and climate models - ...

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.

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 ...