Decline Of Bronze Age Megacities Linked To Climate Change

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A beach undiscovered, on the Makran Coast, Balochistan Pakistan. Makran is a semi-desert coastal strip in the south of Sindh and Balochistan, in Pakistan and Iran, along the coast of the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman. Photo source: ©© Khurram.khan

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Scientists have demonstrated that an abrupt weakening of the summer monsoon affected northwest India 4,100 years ago.

The resulting drought coincided with the beginning of the decline of the metropolis-building Indus Civilization, which spanned present-day Pakistan and India, suggesting that climate change could be why many of the major cities of the civilization were abandoned…

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Spatial extent of the Indus Valley Culture in the Mature and Late phases with major urban centers and locations:(1) Mehrgarh,(2) Amri, (3) Kotdiji, (4) Harappa, (5) Mohenjodaro,(6) Lothal, (7) Dholavira (8) Kalibangan,(9) Ganweriwala, and (10) Pirak. Captions and Photo source: ©© Aurangzebwardag

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