What Was The Indus Valley/Harappan Civilisation?

In British India in the 1920's odd stone seals kept popping up at ruins near Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro along the Indus river valley. They baffled everyone, with their inscriptions in a never before seen written language. Archaeologists, intrigued by this, started excavating these previously ignored sites.

They soon uncovered a 4,500-year-old civilisation. A civilisation completely absent in the historical record. One of the earliest urban civilizations in human history. It flourished alongside Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and China around 3300-1900BCE but was bigger than all of them. A civilisation that built wonders not to gods or kings but to sanitation. A civilisation without war. Made up of massive planned cities built in brick. Masters of bronze and sculpture. They created their own writing system, traded across the vast sea, and possibly invented the world’s first indoor toilets and then vanished for reasons still not understood.

So what was this civilisation in the Indus Valley, what did they achieve, and what does it have to do with rubber duckies? Well let’s find out.

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The Cambridge history of India Suppl. vol. The Indus Civilization by Mortimer Wheeler

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[albinopineapple]

Rarely you'll find an ancient civilization as chill as Harappa. They all business and pool party, no fights.

[Vercingetorix.Fantasia]

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[stphnmrrs]

4500 years ago these people had clean water and sanitation while nearly 1 out of 3 people alive today don't have sufficient access to either. Wild

[subhabratabasu]

People in Harappa, Mesopotamia: *let's trade*
Meanwhile people in europe:- *chilling in forest/cave half naked*

[scottsterling]

I love how war is represented with two men happily hitting each other with sticks

[zakkart]

If I was transported back in time around this period of civilizations I would choose to live in Indus Valley settlements.

[Snp]

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[scpimpdog]

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[sodapop]

"An Unmet Civilization Has Completed Construction Of The Great Bath"

[JaiMahadevv]

The Indus Valley civilization, is one of the most if not the most underrated ancient civilization ever. Thank you for making content about this incredible society!

[ProfRavenSteel]

Last time I was this early, Saraswati river was still flowing.

[thamizhi]

Artefacts found at the archaeological site in Keezhadi, about 12 km from Madurai in Tamil Nadu - India, have been dated to 580 BCE, with “graffiti marks” on them pointing to a possible continuity in script from the Indus Valley Civilisation. The findings were made in a report by a team that conducted excavations at the site.

[TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

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[dheemanrajkhowa]

Harrapans sound like a civilization with a large % of it's society having civil engineering traits.

[Abrahamic.Design]

Is it weird that I feel homesick for this place and time? It sounds like a wonderful moment to exist. I'm excited to learn even more about the Harappans.

[waqqashanafi]

They built 700 wells in one go when laying the city's foundations? So, that means this planned city was the was only possible if the builders had plenty of knowledge, wealth, organization, and power before this. So, where did they come from? Where is their older city?

[gurjotsingh]

I live in area which falls around the ghaghar canal in Punjab, Harappan remains have totally vanished, thanks to our lack of decent leadership, understanding and scholars. I personally wish to retrieve from this civilization, it sucks!!

[vip]

As an Indian, I can definitely see a connection in terms of their focus on trade. There is a long tradition of trade with Mesopotamia, Greece, and Rome with ancient Indian civilizations.

[azadprasad]

I studied indus valley civilization in sixth grade, that time I used to be a lot facinated with all these stuff.

[rozqr]

A decade ago, archaeologists found these sculptures near my villlage predating this era. They are now on display in a museum which they set up in my village - Sanghol, in Punjab, India.