The decline of Bronze-Age civilizations in Egypt, Greece and Mesopotamia has been attributed to a long-term drought that began around 2000 BC. Now paleoclimatologists propose that a similar fate was ...

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 ...

His work is detailed in books like “The Bhilsa Topes” (1854) and “The Ancient Geography of India” (1871), where he mapped historical sites. His excavation reports in “Archaeological Survey of India ...

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 ...

A new study reveals that a long-lasting drought gradually caused the collapse of the Indus Valley Civilisation 1. The dry spell, lasting 900 years, slowly destroyed its irrigation systems, devastated ...

Scientists believe they’ve cracked one of the oldest mysteries of a disappearing civilization. The culprit? Climate change. Nearly 5,000 years ago the Harappan or Indus people created a society on the ...

A mysterious script could help solve the mysteries of one of humanity's oldest civilizations. The Indus River Valley civilization site is as important to archaeologists as ancient Mesopotamia and ...

New Delhi: A series of prolonged and severe droughts lasting more than 85 years each likely led to the gradual collapse of the Indus Valley Civilization (IVC), according to a new study published in ...

At its height, the Indus Valley civilization was one of the most advanced societies on Earth. In cities such as Harappa, people lived in multistorey brick houses laid out along gridded streets. They ...

The Indus Valley Civilisation, also known as the "Harappan Civilisation," is the oldest civilisation found in India. However, ...