Climate change influenced rise and fall of Northern Iraq's Neo-Assyrian Empire
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Published in Science Advances · View the paper (DOI)
A new study suggests that climate change played a role in the collapse of the Neo-Assyrian Empire by exacerbating agricultural productivity declines. The research used high-resolution paleoclimate records from northern Iraq to show that a megadrought may have encouraged invading armies and led to political unrest.
Coverage from 3 institutions
- Climate change influenced rise and fall of Northern Iraq's Neo-Assyrian Empire American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) · Nov 13, 2019 · first to report
- Climate may have helped crumble one of the ancient world's most powerful civilizations University of Colorado at Boulder · Nov 13, 2019
- What felled the great Assyrian Empire? A Yale professor weighs in Yale University · Nov 14, 2019