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Welcome to the first episode of a collaboration with a bunch of History YouTubers: Discovery of India! The Indus Valley Civilization (also known as the Harappan Civilization) popped up around the Indus and Saraswati Rivers in the Indian subcontinent. The discovery of this ancient civilization is quite recent, and the Harappan people are still shrouded in mystery.

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It wasn’t until the 1920s with excavations taking place at Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro that this mysterious civilization came to light. The Harappan civilization is unlike other civilizations that were around at the same time. The Indus Valley Civilization was the largest of the ancient civilizations with a population of over 5 million people, over 1500 sites spanning an area of over 1 million square kilometers full of planned cities, sewers, with standardized bricks and units of weight throughout the entire area - Even though some are separated by hundreds of kilometers, Harappan sites are extremely uniform in their city planning and building!

Let’s not forget about the massive public water works like the Great Bath of Mohenjo-Daro! A peaceful, chill civilization who loved to take baths? Sign me up!


Sources
1.)The ancient Indus Valley: New Perspectives by Jane R. McIntosh https://amzn.to/3j6qbmb

2.)Empires of the Indus the Story of a River by Alice Albinia https://amzn.to/33ViCYQ

3.) The Indus Civilization A Contemporary Perspective by Gregory L Possehl https://amzn.to/3i4q5dh

4.) A population history of India - From the First Modern People to the Present Day by Tim Dyson https://amzn.to/335mgQP

5.) India’s Ancient Past by R.S. Sharma https://amzn.to/333RLe0

6.) India The Ancient Past A History of the Indian Subcontinent from c. 7000 BCE to CE 1200 by Burjor Avari https://amzn.to/3j7w1DK

7.) The Harappan Civilization and Its Writing: A Model for the Decipherment of the Indus Script by Walter Ashlin Fairservis https://amzn.to/2S1tu1Z

8.) Huge Ancient Civilization's Collapse Explained by Charles Q. Choi
https://www.livescience.com/20614-col...

9.) Decline of Bronze Age 'megacities' linked to climate change- University of Cambridge
https://phys.org/news/2014-02-decline...

10.) https://www.harappa.com/

11.) Abrupt weakening of the summer monsoon in northwest India ~4100 yr ago by Yama Dixit; David A. Hodell; Cameron A. Petrie Geology (2014) 42 (4): 339–342.
https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/...

12.) Water Supply and Sewage Disposal at Mohenjo-Daro by M. Jansen, World Archaeology Vol. 21, No. 2 https://www.jstor.org/stable/124907?s...
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet....

Image Credits:
Shang writing
-BabelStone CC BY-SA 3.0

Mohenjo-Daro
-Saqib Qayyum CC BY-SA 3.0

Lothal drainage system
-Abhilashdvbk CC BY-SA 3.0

Indus priest king
-Mamoon Mengal CC BY-SA 1.0

Indus script
-Siyajkak CC BY-SA 3.0

Uruk ziggurat
-Hardnfast CC BY 3.0

Sarasvati River
-Io Herodotus CC BY-SA 4.0
Mesopotamia- Indus Map
-GFDL CC BY-SA 3.0

Harappan sites
-Merikanto CC BY-SA 4.0

Settlement map
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Harappan bead and pot
-James Glazier CC BY-SA 2.0

Harappa drawing
-Tejavalli reddy(1830787) CC BY-SA 4.0

Mohenjo-Daro
-Saqib Qayyum CC BY-SA 3.0

Great bath Mohenjo-Daro
-Saqib Qayyum CC BY-SA 3.0

Priest King Statue
-Mamoon Mengal CC BY-SA 4.0

Indus Carnelian Beads
-ALFGRN CC BY-SA 2.0

Bathroom Lothal
-Bernard Gagnon CC BY-SA 3.0

Mohenjo-Daro
-Saqib Qayyum CC BY-SA 3.0

Uruk -SAC Andy Holmes (RAF)/MOD, OGL v1.0
Well in Lothal
-Bernard Gagnon CC BY-SA 3.0

Cheops pyramid
-Nina CC BY 2.5

Harappa
-Muhammad Bin Naveed CC BY-SA 3.0

Roman bath
-Joyofmuseums CC BY-SA 4.0

Hungary bath
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Terracotta beads
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Rosetta stone
-Hans Hillewaert CC BY-SA 4.0
Stone seal -PHGCOM CC BY-SA 3.0

Pyramids of Giza –Bruno Girin


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