How climate change caused the world’s first ever empire to collapse
An ancient artefact from the Iraq Museum in Baghdad Image: REUTERS/ Petr Josek Snr
Vasile Ersek
Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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