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

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Successive major droughts, each lasting longer than 85 years, were likely a key factor in the eventual fall of the Indus Valley Civilization, according to a paper published in Communications Earth & ...