More than a millennium ago, a Maya community collapsed in the face of a devastating drought. One writer joined an intrepid ...

Contrary to what is sometimes claimed, the ancient Egyptians did have a flood myth that is clearly analogous to those seen in ...

The ancient city—in what ... they’re submerged by seasonal floods. Close reading of Hittite texts, combined with environmental data, shows that droughts gripped the region every few decades ...

Cuneiform tablets from ancient Mesopotamia cover a range of topics ... believe offers a Mesopotamian account of the Great Flood. In the Western world, most people associate the Great Flood ...

Water shortages have plagued the region for centuries, and now modern climate change combined with agro-industrial practices have further intensified droughts. In response, the Peruvian government ...

It is one of the oldest and greatest stores of knowledge: a vast library of texts amassed by Assyrian King Ashurbanipal, who ruled ancient Mesopotamia ... story of a great flood; the Royal Game ...

If deciphered, the script could offer a glimpse into a Bronze Age civilization believed to rival ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia ... with evidence of long droughts, shifting temperatures, and ...

The Akkadian Empire formed 4,300 years ago, when Sargon the Great consolidated the city-states of ancient Mesopotamia under his rule ... some archaeologists have suspected the Akkadians succumbed to ...

A recent archaeological discovery has revealed that an ancient pre-Columbian society in ... plain subject to intense rainy seasons that caused flooding, alternating with periods of extreme drought.

An advanced and previously unknown ancient ... the extreme drought suffered there thousands of years ago. She sees the droughts around the world today (and their counterpart, flooding) and forest ...

The Amazon rainforest experienced a horrific drought event in 2024 ... within a strong science legacy traced back to Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia 3000 to 1200 BCE. Only brief intervals of ...