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 ...

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.

New climate research suggests centuries-long river droughts weakened one of the world’s earliest urban societies — and offers ...

Carvings on a 12,000-year-old monument in Turkey appear to mark solar days and years, making it possibly the oldest solar calendar in ancient civilization. Marking a massive comet strike as the start, ...

A new exhibit exploring the ancient Mayan civilization has opened at the Hebei Museum in Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, ...