Evidence Prolonged Droughts Ended The Bronze Age Indus Civilization And Its Megacities
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Scientists have found evidence—locked into an ancient stalagmite from a cave in the Himalayas—of a series of severe and lengthy droughts which may have upturned the Bronze Age Indus Civilization. The beginning of this arid period—starting at around 4,200 years ago and lasting for over two centuries—coincides with the reorganization […]
Ancient Maya Lessons On Surviving Drought – Examined By Scientists
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A new study casts doubt on drought as the driver of ancient Mayan civilization collapse. There is no dispute that a series of droughts occurred in the Yucatan Peninsula of southeastern Mexico and northern Central America at the end of the ninth century, when Maya cities mysteriously began to be […]