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

Between 750 and 900 CE, the population of the Maya lowlands in Central America experienced a major demographic and political ...

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

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

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

A new scientific study suggests that the sudden collapse of the ancient Indus River Valley civilization, known for its ...

The collapse of human civilization is now 'inevitable', according to a scholar who's combed through 5,000 years of history. Dr Luke Kemp of the University of Cambridge has exposed clear and alarming ...

A breakthrough study claims to have solved the centuries-old mystery of why the Indus Valley civilisation fell. The findings ...

At its peak, 30% of the world's population lived in the Roman Empire, and its citizens enjoyed a rich and advanced life that put modern people to shame, but it gradually declined and eventually ...

This is the BBC at its most fundamentally BBC-ish — it is another instalment in its ongoing revival of the 1969 Kenneth Clark ...