[ckilmer]

This drought corresponds to the droughts that brought down the old kingdom of egypt around 2100 bc

[SunkenCiv]

Definitely looks like it!

[SunkenCiv]

The megadrought keyword (see also the "curseofagade" keyword):

• Disaster That Struck The Ancients
• Meteor Clue To End Of Middle East Civilisations
• Deconstructing the Walls of Jerico
• Comets,Meteors & Myth: New Evidence For Toppled Civilizations And Bibical Tales
• Evidence for Major Impact Events in the late Third Millennium BC
• Drought That Destroyed A Civilisation
• Climate Key To Sphinx's Riddle
• Comets And Disaster In The Bronze Age
• Ancient City Mysteriously Survived Mideast Civilization Collapse
• Ancient Egypt was destroyed by drought, discover Scottish experts
• Climate and Drought Lessons from Ancient Egypt
• Climate change caused empire's fall, tree rings reveal
• The Ghost Empire -- Climate Change, Global Warming, Drought and Desertification
• Ancient megadrought entombed dodos in poisonous fecal cocktail

One unrelated topic in there:

• Historical Review: Megadrought And Megadeath In 16th Century Mexico (Hemorrhagic Fever)

[SunkenCiv]

[snip] It had been thought that the deserts in northern China are one million years old, but a new study of the Hunshandake Sandy Lands of Inner Mongolia suggests that its desert is only 4,000 years old. [/snip]

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