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8,000-Year-Old Indus Valley Civilisation May Be Older Than Egypt’s Earliest Pharaohs

For decades, the dominant explanation for the collapse of the Bronze Age Harappan civilisation centred on climate change: a weakening of the monsoon rains that sustained its great cities. New evidence ...
Science Daily

Scientists finally uncovered why the Indus Valley Civilization collapsed

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 ...
Nature

Centuries of repeated droughts linked to the Indus Valley Civilisation’s decline

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 ...
CNN

No one knows what this ancient script says. Now there’s a $1 million prize to crack the code

A fish under a roof. A stick figure without a head. A series of lines that look like a garden rake. These symbols are part of an entirely undeciphered script from a sophisticated ancient civilization ...