Scientists may have solved why this ancient, advanced civilization vanished

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.
Smithsonian Magazine

Why Did This Advanced Ancient Civilization Collapse? New Research Suggests Climate Change Played a Role

The Indus Valley civilization, located in present-day Pakistan and India, went through four periods of intense drought, which ...
New Atlas

Intense decades-long droughts collapsed the advanced Harappan civilization

The culprit behind the mysterious disappearance of one of the most advanced urban civilizations at the time, contemporaries ...
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The Fascinating Stories Behind 25 Out-Of-Place Artifacts, From The Antikythera Mechanism To Futuristic Hieroglyphs

These out-of-place artifacts, or OOPArts, are surprising for their place and time — but there's an explanation behind each ...
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25 Archaeological Finds That Prove Ancient Civilizations Were Advanced

Ancient Asian Artifacts That Will Make You Rethink History : <a href=" ► 25 Everyday Items with Secret Functions You Didn’t Know About: <a href=" The past few years have proven beyond a doubt that we ...
Daily Sabah

Centuries of drought, not war, doomed Indus civilization

A new scientific study suggests that the sudden collapse of the ancient Indus River Valley civilization, known for its ...
Africa Times

Archaeologists Uncover Over 100 Structures, Shedding Light on a Lost Ancient City Hidden in Peru’s Cloud Forest

The recent discovery of over 100 previously unknown structures in Peru’s Rio Abiseo National Park has shed new light on the ...