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Cities of Dust and Wind explores how long-term climate stress — a weakening monsoon, drying rivers, and centuries of drought — undermined the Indus Valley’s urban world. Using archaeology, paleoclimate records, and satellite evidence, this episode traces how Harappa, Mohenjo-Daro and other great cities declined as their water sources faltered, forcing migration and social change. Subscribe for the series and learn what ancient climate collapse can teach us today.

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00:00Long before the pharaohs raised their pyramids and before Babylon's walls caught the morning sun,
00:04another world thrived between rivers. The Indus Valley, a land of flowing water and steady rains
00:11where people built cities of clay and order. Harappa, Mohenjo-daro, Dolavira, names now spoken
00:19like echoes. These were cities of perfection, streets aligned to the sun, drains beneath the
00:26ground, granaries filled to the brim. They rose not by conquest but by balance between people and
00:33the rhythm of the monsoon. But what happens when that rhythm breaks? When the rain forgets its path
00:39and the rivers dry to dust? This is the story of a civilization built by water and undone by the
00:46wind.
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