MUST WATCH | What is the Meghalayan Age?
Jul 20, 2018, 21:13 IST
| TNT News | July 20, 2017
Here is all you need to know about the Meghalayan Age.
4200 years ago, a sweeping mega-drought devastated agricultural societies across the globe, wiping out civilizations from Ancient Egypt to Mesopotamia, Palestine and the Yangtze River Valley. Now, scientists say the cataclysmic event marks the beginning of a new geologic age: the Late Holocene Meghalayan, which encompasses everything from the start of the drought to the present.