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there are three possibilities:

1. a layer of ash was found at one of the sites this indicates large scale burning of fire

2. there was a skeleton in another site this indicates a mass massacre

3. a natural disaster might have occurred mostly a flood because of the overflowing of river Indus
indus valley civilization extinguished because of some natural reasons e.g climate change that grew significantly cooler and drier

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One current theory for the decline of the Indus Valley civilization is drought. Other contributing reasons for the decline are decreased trade with Egypt, Immigration of new people, and deforestation.

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Indus valley civilization vanished by a war Aryan's attack Indus valley civilization

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i personally think it was climate change because there is evidence of a earthquake around the demise of the Harrapans 

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The Illumanti reptile aliens abducted and probed the indus valley.

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The shifts may have caused another river, the sarswati, to dry up. Trade on this river became impossible and people brgan to die

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Im sure but maybe they left to another place but theres no way they dissapered like "BOOM" and there gone no

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Foreign invades caused ancient civilization to disappear.

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