Climate change may have determined the fate of the ancient world’s most expansive civilization. A new study suggests that the waning of monsoons spurred both the rise and fall of the Harappans, who flourished in the floodplains of the Indus Valley thousands of years ago.
HIGH AND DRY Settlements (red dots) appeared along the rivers of the Indus Valley starting about 5,200 years ago (left).
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