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

Throughout history, numerous ancient technologies have left researchers and historians pondering the true capabilities of early civilizations. Were they more advanced than we give them credit for? By ...

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

Roman, Egyptian, and Chinese civilizations had many different ingenious inventions. Chocolate was a big aphrodisiac for Mesoamerican civilizations and used for energy. The first earthquake detector is ...

One of history's biggest questions is: "How does an entire civilization disappear?" One can comprehend how an object or even a city is lost, buried, or destroyed, but an entire group or nation of ...

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