Climate change ‘wiped out ancient Indus civilization’

  Washington: The mysterious fall of one of the world’s first, great urban civilizations almost 4,000 years ago in what is now India, Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh now seems to have a key culprit — ancient climate change, researchers say. Once extending more than 1 million square kilometers across the plains of the Indus River from the Arabian Sea to the Ganges, the Indus civilization was the largest—but least known—of the first great urban cultures that also included Egypt and Mesopotamia. http://zeenews.india.com/news/eco-news/climate-change-wiped-out-ancient-indus-civilization_778536.html

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