Brick-built streets, public baths, intricately designed houses, and crop cultivation according to seasons are the hallmarks of the 9,000-year-old Indus Valley Civilisation, which flourished once from ...

The Indus Valley Civilization has long stood as one of humanity’s great enigmas, a Bronze Age society that mastered urban planning, long-distance trade and sophisticated water management, then faded ...

Successive major droughts, each lasting longer than 85 years, were likely a key factor in the eventual fall of the Indus Valley Civilization, according to a paper published in Communications Earth & ...

Seals with the signs and symbols of the Indus Valley civilization are waiting to be deciphered. Gary Todd via Wikimedia Commons under CC0 1.0 More than 5,300 years ago, a civilization emerged along ...

The Indus Valley Civilisation (IVC) did not collapse abruptly but declined gradually under repeated and prolonged droughts, according to a study 1 that integrates palaeoclimate evidence with ...

A series of century-scale droughts may have quietly reshaped one of the world’s earliest urban civilizations. New climate reconstructions show that the Indus Valley Civilization endured repeated long ...