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unusual facts about Indus Valley Civilization


Shudra: The Rising

Shudra: The Rising is set in the time of the Harappan civilisation and has a storyline that concerns the caste system of ancient India.


Ghod River

Inamgaon, a post-Harappan agrarian village located along the Ghod, has been studied for its archaeological finds.

Migration period of ancient Burma

The major cities of the Indus Valley Civilization, such as Harappa and Mohenjo-daro, date back to around 3300 BC, and represent some of the largest human habitations of the ancient world.

Tandoor

The oldest examples of a tandoor were found in the settlements of the ancient Indus Valley Civilization, though earlier tandoor-type ovens have been recovered in early-Harappan contexts on the Makran coast, including the mound site of Balakot, Pakistan.


see also

Harappan

The architecture of the ancient Indus Valley civilization of Harappa

History of science and technology in the Indian subcontinent

Based on archaeological and textual evidence, Joseph E. Schwartzberg (2008)—a University of Minnesota professor emeritus of geography—traces the origins of Indian cartography to the Indus Valley Civilization (c. 2500–1900 BCE).

Pragjyotishpura

Dr. Medhi, an anthropologist of Gauhati University has published in one of his research papers that a civilization similar to the Indus Valley civilization flourished in the Brahmaputra Valley.