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

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.

We all think we know the story of India’s history, right? The Indus Valley Civilization, the Vedic texts, the Maurya ...

Ancient Indus Valley Civilization's decline was driven by prolonged droughts, not sudden catastrophe. New climate studies ...

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

Long drought cycles reshaped settlement choices in the Indus region. These climate stresses likely contributed to its slow ...

A view of a barren landscape of the Langqen-Zangpo (upper Sutlej) river valley near Tsaparang, the capital city of ancient Guge Kingdom in the western Tibet, approximately 150 km from Sahiya Cave, ...

The Indus Valley Civilization, now referred to as the Sindhu-Saraswati civilization by Indian historians, peaked between 5,000 and 3,500 years ago across modern-day northwest India and Pakistan. Their ...

To outsiders, India seems like a homogeneous monolith. Proof? Ask Indians how many times they have been questioned, "Do you speak Indian?" Far from this myth, India is home to hundreds of languages, ...

The dominant political ideology in India today is Hindu nationalism, a spectrum of thought that represents a “New India.” In ...