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Modern archaeology suggests that this Indus Valley civilization was destroyed not by Aryan conquerors, but by floods, when the Indus river changed course, perhaps due to earthquakes, in about 1700 b.c.
The Visigoths and Vandals destroyed almost all traces of culture in the area, and it wasn’t until after the Moors invaded, in 711, that the first city was constructed.
Alexei Tikhonov of the Zoological Institute in St. Petersburg denies that the mammoth can be cloned, because during its "preservation in permafrost, dehydration destroyed the chains of DNA.
1 When the toxicity test(s) is concluded, all test organisms (including controls) should be humanely destroyed and disposed of in an appropriate manner.
The great Catholic abbeys and priories, which had been the backbone of the economy, were destroyed by Henry’s troops; social organization was replaced with terror and confusion.