Between 750 and 900 CE, the population of the Maya lowlands in Central America experienced a major demographic and political ...

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

Skeletons buried near the ancient Maya city of Copán have revealed new clues about the collapse, but not total decimation, of the Maya civilization. A study of the genomes of seven people from the ...

Learn what caused a major population crash in the Maya civilization, driving several cities to fall into ruin.

The collapse of human civilization is now seen as inevitable, according to a research who said 5,000 years of history have exposed clear and alarming patterns. Dr Luke Kemp of the University of ...

Successive major droughts, each lasting longer than 85 years, were likely a key factor in the eventual fall of the Indus ...

A new scientific study suggests that the sudden collapse of the ancient Indus River Valley civilization, known for its ...

One of history's biggest questions is: "How does an entire civilization disappear?" One can comprehend how an object or even a city is lost, buried, or destroyed, but an entire group or nation of ...

The collapse of civilizations : 1177 BC -- Of arms and the man : the fifteenth century BC -- An (Aegean) affair to remember : the fourteenth century BC -- Fighting for gods and country : the ...