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

There's something about ancient civilizations that fascinates us even thousands of years later. Their architecture, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Amongst the most enduring mythical creatures, which were present in so many ancient cultures, are the dragons. Appearing frequently in folklore and tales from China in the east to Europe in the west, ...

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.

The chance rediscovery of the ancient Chinese Sanxingdui civilization is legendary in and of itself. In 1929, an unsuspecting ...

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 & ...

A Study Gallery of India and the Ancient World, trains its lens to the duration between the Harappan civilisation — which ...