Drought Archive
Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Cahokia Mounds settlement near present-day St. Louis was a significant urban center approximately 900 years ago. With a metropolitan population of around
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Ancient Technology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Sumerians were an advanced ancient civilization fully aware of the dangers climate can pose. They naturally knew there was no survival without water,
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Remarkable ancient engravings that have been submerged for a long time are now visible again at a site known as Praia das Lajes
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists have found evidence—locked into an ancient stalagmite from a cave in the Himalayas—of a series of severe and lengthy droughts which may
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The collapse of the Hittite Empire in the Late Bronze Age has been blamed on various factors, from war with other territories to
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Hunnic peoples migrated westward across Eurasia, switched between farming and herding, and became violent raiders in response to severe drought in the Danube
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Prolonged drought likely helped to fuel civil conflict and the eventual political collapse of Mayapan, the ancient capital city of the Maya on
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An extended period of turmoil in the prehistoric Maya city of Mayapan, in the Yucatan region of Mexico, was marked by population declines,
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new study casts doubt on drought as the driver of ancient Mayan civilization collapse. There is no dispute that a series of
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - After being submerged for 50 years, the stunning Spanish Stonehenge can now be admired once again. The 5,000-year-old site believed to have been
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An ancient wall relief in Peru, belonging to the oldest civilizations in the Americas, has been unearthed at the ancient Caral site of
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