Monday, May 28, 2012

Pakistan: Climate change wiped out one of the world's first, great civilisations more than 4, 000 years ago

Daily Mail: The Indus River in Karakoram Range near Skardu, Pakistan, remains a lifeline even in the modern day Climate change led to the collapse of the ancient Indus civilization more than 4,000 years ago, archaeologists believe. The Indus civilization was the largest - but least known - of the first great urban cultures that also included Egypt and Mesopotamia. The empire stretched over more than a million square kilometers across the plains of the Indus River from the Arabian Sea to the Ganges, over what...

URL: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2151143/Climate-change-wiped-worlds-great-civilisations-4-000-years-ago.html?ITO=1490

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