Hotter temperatures and a series of droughts in what is now Pakistan and India fragmented one of the world’s major early ...

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

A series of severe, decades-long droughts ushered the end of the Indus Valley Civilization, one of the world's oldest ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...