Pakistan's Indus River

Like the civilizations in Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Greece, Harappa grew on the floodplains of a rich and life-giving river, the Indus.
The original cities and many of the towns seemed to have been built right upon the shores of the river. The Indus, however, is destructive and unpredictable in its floods, and the cities were frequently levelled by the forces of nature. Mohenjo-Daro in the south, where the flooding can be fairly brutal, was rebuilt six times that we know about; Harappa in the north was rebuilt five times.

©1996, Richard Hooker

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Updated 6-6-1999

Also another source with tables of years, area, deaths, costs, of floods
http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:7N9Y3xPVBUkJ:www.riversymposium.com/2005/index.php%3Felement%3D38+indus+river+flooding&hl=en&gl=nz&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESgGIjtLnHJ7JYmfSqzNYVQo2zk4BrseV7klmzDWmVS83Z1RahFFZRdILPN6J5ekAmWf_ux1LUIFetHgdvzfpzr-wVJ5fcoRBZtquKBQsxoBZXyoFTrZ3wW8yGvBFHOKh-XlrWeR&sig=AHIEtbTw27l8Q3VQuRXAUlF5G7bGCNMmTA

By H Reyman and A Kamal

History lessons
Geologists are working round the clock to better understand the ancient flood history of the Indus River.

Such history lessons will help to better predict its erratic behaviour and "plan for our own uncertain future", said Professor Peter Clift of Aberdeen University, an expert on the Indus River.

His team recently used makeshift "rigs" to drill down into the sands and mud of the Indus floodplain. By precisely dating layers of flood-deposited sand, they were able to work out past changes in river flow.

Their results were startling.

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Professor Martin Gibling

Dalhousie University
During a warm period 6,000 years ago, the Indus was a monster river, more powerful and more prone to flooding than today.

Then, 4,000 years ago, as the climate cooled, a large part of it simply dried up. Deserts appeared whether mighty torrents once flowed.

Professor Clift believes that this failure of the Indus may have triggered the collapse of the great Harappan civilisation.

The city ruins of Mohenjo-daro, a relict of this lost culture, date from the time when the rivers ran dry.

BBC By Howard Falcon-Lang
Science reporter

krazykiwi (6,140) Says:

August 22nd, 2010 at 8:05 pm
Another crook (and wife of a bigger con-man) joins the warmist’s brigade – “Clinton Invokes Climate Change Debate to Explain Pakistan Floods”

I wonder if CAGW can be blamed for:
– India, 1875-78: Famine (10 million dead)
– Huayan Kou, China, 1887: Yang-tse Kiang flooding (one million dead)
– China, 1907: famine (20 million dead)
– China, 1931: Flooding (3.7 million dead)
– Worldwide, 1957: Influenza pandemic (about four million dead)

Oh, and CAGW is already blamed for increased hurricanes even when they are at 30 Year low.
http://www.coaps.fsu.edu/~maue/tropical/