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, ...
International team reconstructed region’s ancient climate using paleoclimate evidence from caves, lakes and climate models - ...
BY DR. QAISER MUKHTAR* Authored by Dr. Kamran Ahmad, Goddess of the Indus is a powerful historical novel that explores the ...
A new study examined 2,000 years of rainfall and river-flow patterns across the Indus region to understand how the monsoons ...
New climate research suggests centuries-long river droughts weakened one of the world’s earliest urban societies — and offers ...
A breakthrough study claims to have solved the centuries-old mystery of why the Indus Valley civilisation fell. The findings ...
Successive major droughts, each lasting longer than 85 years, were likely a key factor in the eventual fall of the Indus ...
The findings indicate that successive major droughts were crucial in the disintegration of urban centers like Harappa.
The study by researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, and two US universities has suggested rainfall ...
One of the greatest mysteries of India is how and why the flourishing Indus Valley Civilisation disappeared. Now, researchers ...
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 ...
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Warming and droughts led to collapse of the Indus Valley Civilisation
Hotter temperatures and a series of droughts in what is now Pakistan and India fragmented one of the world’s major early civilisations, providing a "warning shot" for today ...
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