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.

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

Rather than being felled by a single disaster, the researchers argue it was this "repeated, long, and intensifying" cycle of ...

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 ...

A new study shows how a long river drought triggered a metamorphosis of Harappan civilization, reshaping settlements as ...

Archaeologist Vijay Kumar has revealed the amazing finding of 4500-year-old copper harpoons in India that are decorated with human faces. A distinctive feature of the Ochre Coloured Pottery (OCP) ...

This article is part of an ongoing series surveying archeological and historical sites across Asia. For the introduction to this series, please see here. As mentioned in the introductory article to ...

India’s colourful heritage can be witnessed in its full glory at many destinations across the country. As one of the world’s oldest civilizations, India boasts a rich melting pot of religions, ...