Revealed: How climate change ended world’s first great civilisations

Photo: A city settlement at the Mohenjo-daro in Pakistan

David Keys, Archaeology Correspondent, Monday 03 March 2014; Photo/subheading quoted verbatim from (attribution)

"'Megacities' of the Indus Valley region of Pakistan and north-west India declined and never recovered because of a dramatic increase in drought conditions, according to new research"

Article: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/revealed-how-climate-change-ended-worlds-first-great-civilisations-9164248.html

See also: 'Le changement climatique aurait conduit a l'effondrement de la civilisation Harappeene', Les Decouvertes Archeologiques, 28.6.12: http://decouvertes-archeologiques.blogspot.fr/2012/06/le-changement-climatique-conduit-aurait.html

et - 'La civilisation de l'Indus, 2000 ans plus ancienne?', Les Decouvertes Archeologiques, 26.11.12: http://decouvertes-archeologiques.blogspot.fr/2012/11/la-civilisation-de-lindus-2000-ans-plus.html