Tag: Pakistan
Prolonged droughts likely spelled the end for Indus megacities
New research involving Cambridge University has found evidence — locked into an ancient stalagmite from a cave in the Himalayas — of a series...
Tree rings reveal 400 years of rainfall patterns in Pakistan and Afghanistan
From June to October 2022, Pakistan was hit by devastating floods that displaced more than 30 million people and caused damages amounting to around...
Complex urban processes discovered in the Indus civilization
Mesopotamia and the Indus civilization were both urban civilizations with large, densely populated and planned cities, 6000–1990 BCE. A new thesis in archaeology points...
2,300-year-old Buddhist temple unearthed in Pakistan
Pakistan's oldest Buddhist temple was found in the country's northwestern part by Italian archaeologists. The remains of the temple date back to 300 B.C.Credit:...
Cannabis first domesticated in China 12,000 years ago: study reveals
Cannabis was first domesticated around 12,000 years ago in China, researchers found, after analyzing the genomes of plants from across the world.Cannabis landraces in...
Researchers detail the most ancient bat fossil ever discovered in Asia
A new paper appearing in Biology Letters describes the oldest-known fragmentary bat fossils from Asia, pushing back the evolutionary record for bats on that...