How centuries of drought doomed the Indus Valley Civilization, one of the world’s oldest civilizations

A new study provides the strongest evidence yet that long, recurring droughts played a decisive role in reshaping — and ultimately weakening — the Indus Valley Civilization, one of the world’s earliest urban societies. Flourishing between roughly 5,000 and 3,500 years ago...

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