Between 750 and 900 CE, the population of the Maya lowlands in Central America experienced a major demographic and political ...
Learn what caused a major population crash in the Maya civilization, driving several cities to fall into ruin.
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Editor’s note: Marshall Brain – futurist, inventor, NCSU professor, writer and creator of “How Stuff Works” is a contributor to WRAL TechWire. Brain takes a serious as well as entertaining look at a ...
Climate simulations suggest that long droughts slowly pushed the Indus Valley Civilization to relocate, reorganize, and ...
Editor’s note: Marshall Brain – futurist, inventor, NCSU professor, writer and creator of “How Stuff Works” – is a contributor to WRAL TechWire. He’s also author of “The Doomsday Book: The Science ...
Successive major droughts, each lasting longer than 85 years, were likely a key factor in the eventual fall of the Indus ...
In four episodes, the BBC’s Civilisations series tells the story of the fall of the Romans, Aztecs, Egypt’s Ptolemies and ...
Ancient Indus Valley Civilization's decline was driven by prolonged droughts, not sudden catastrophe. New climate studies ...