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The Amazon is the most powerful river in the world. With an average discharge of over 209,000 m³/s, it pours 20% of all global freshwater into the ocean. Learn about its massive 6,400 km length and 7 ...

A study reveals that four long, intense droughts forced shifts in settlement patterns, altering agriculture and trade routes, and ultimately testing Indus Valley civilisation’s remarkable resilience a ...

A breakthrough study claims to have solved the centuries-old mystery of why the Indus Valley civilisation fell. The findings ...

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New research reveals why not just agriculture but also cereal grains were crucial to the formation of humanity’s first states ...

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It took decades for archaeologists to realize this 3,500-year-old tablet depicts an ancient city at scale. But how did its creators pull that off? Archaeologists from the University of Pennsylvania ...