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.

Archaeologists have long known that complex societies can rise, flourish and then disappear so completely that only scattered ruins hint at what was lost. Now a new wave of research is sharpening the ...

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

The recent discovery of over 100 previously unknown structures in Peru’s Rio Abiseo National Park has shed new light on the ...