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

Archaeologists have long known that complex societies can rise, flourish and then disappear so completely that only scattered ...

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.

Ancient Indus Valley Civilization's decline was driven by prolonged droughts, not sudden catastrophe. New climate studies ...

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

Today the deserts of the Arabian peninsula are inhospitable - but 100,000 years ago the area was full of animals and ancient humans ...

According to National Geographic, the map depicts distances between gates in the wall surrounding the Mesopotamian city of Nippur, but for decades experts questioned its accuracy. The locations of ...

Shimao ruins, an important prehistoric site located in Northwest China's Shaanxi Province Photo: Courtesy of National ...

Many of the ancient southern Africans, including those who lived between about 10,200 and 1,400 years ago, "fall outside the ...

Around 8,000 years ago, many civilizations thrived on plains that are now submerged by the North and Baltic seas. Now, scientists from a variety of northern European research institutions are ...

The Fertile Crescent, a boomerang-shaped region spanning modern-day Middle Eastern countries, is considered the cradle of civilization and where farming first emerged. But little is known about how ...