Fascinating Facts about the Indus River Valley

The ancient world consisted of four great civilizations: China, Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Indus Valley Civilization. China, Mesopotamia, Egypt have been widely researched and are well known to us all. But the fourth and equally important one, the far more sophisticated Indus Valley Civilization, seems to have been lost to the world. Only rediscovered in the 20th century, the fact that the peaceful civilization seemingly did not engage in warfare and left few clues as to its ultimate demise continues to mystify archaeologists and historians to this day...
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[@hecate235]

Ruins in ancient China, Sumer, and Egypt all look impressive, but when it comes to a place to *live* 7000 years ago, I'll take the Indus Valley.

[@antoniotadeo4679]

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[@augustcoleman5563]

@Antonio Tadeo Instablaster ;)

[@Charlesputnam-bn9zy]

On the Bulgarian shores of the Black Sea in 1969, was discovered a metallurgy center that dates back to about 4,000 BC. The most amazing feature is that the ore was not indigenous but was imported, brought there by sea ! The article said that these prehistoric civilizations were not as primitive as we thought.

[@nujeru99]

Been waiting for this one for a LONG WHILE! The Indus Valley/Harrappan Civilization has always fascinated me-their amazing urban planning, complex drainage and sewage system, the fact they had FLUSHING TOILETS, etc contradicts the Eurocentric-based history that has been shoved down our throats here in the US. The fact that the Indus Valley was also a bustling center of trade and agriculture, without any need for war...shows just how intellectually advanced they were

[@ShubhamMishrabro]

Love from India😍😍

[@helveticaneptune537]

Yes pakistan was quite advanced

[@ShubhamMishrabro]

@@helveticaneptune537 not only Pakistan but India and Afghanistan regions too

[@helveticaneptune537]

@@ShubhamMishrabro yes, some indians try to dissociate ivc with pakistanis completely which is absurd - too much nationalism on both sides

[@ShubhamMishrabro]

@@helveticaneptune537 ok

[@lornaduwn]

It's not a "now lost, wax casting technique" We know how it was done and it is called "lost wax casting". A wax figure is surrounded by clay, creating a mold. Then molten metal is poured into a hole in the top of the mold. This melts the wax which then pours out of a hole at the bottom of the mold. The space is thus filled with the metal where the wax was "lost".

[@robina.9402]

That really bugged me too! Great description of the process and what "lost" actually means in this case

[@Fastcurrents]

Thank you

[@annettefournier9655]

Ahhh. Thank you. I was scratching my head thinking; hey that's not a lost technique. Lol, you must remember Simon is just reading a script and though he sounds very informed and knowledgeable, he very often has no idea what he is talking about. He's reading others research. He's the talent/ actor.

[@hecate235]

Honestly, these guys! It's called the "lost wax" technique, not because the method has been lost to time, but because the wax is "lost", drained out, when casting. It's still used in jewelry making. This is what comes of being too literal minded.

[@lornaduwn]

@@hecate235 exactly....but he referred to it as the "now lost, wax casting technique", which has a totally different meaning.

[@manasa-artwithoutfrontiers6176]

I so much appreciate you finally doing this, especially after leaving it out of great ancient civilizations and my request to do this was trolled by some who couldn't believe Indus Valley had the achievements which you have now covered. I;ve loved visiting it's archeological dig sites and teaching about it for decades as a side interest and you covered it in a fresh way that enhanced understanding. Big thank you!

[@rtwpsom2]

lol It's called "Lost Wax Casting." The name doesn't imply the technique was lost to time, it means the wax is lost during the process of casting.

[@johnyricco1220]

Sometimes people think “investment casting” means it’s a luxury product for investing money into 😄

[@rockets4kids]

I loled there too.

[@brett4264]

The "Dancing Girl" looks more like the "Angry Wife".

[@thaisdarosa2100]

She picked a pot instead of the frying pay to hit him over the head...

[@incubusk8r]

On a serious note, the girl is standing in a position called "Tri-Bhanga" or bent 3 times. (head, hips and knee) This is one of the earliest depiction of dance stance that Indian's still perform in their traditional dances even today.

[@jayakrishnan26]

Lmao

[@swftwlly]

#11 - The ancient civilization of the Indus Valley developed a sophisticated knowledge of astronomy.

[@JaredLS10]

a $10,000 prize seems really low considering one would be opening up a whole knowledge base of history.

[@Scursion]

Knowledge is priceless.

[@nicholasbrassard3512]

to be fair, the prize is put up by a lone historian/archeologist who most likely doesn't have a lot of funding for his research

[@alyssinwilliams4570]

the indus valley people are incredibly fascinating, Ive been interested in since the late oughts. Would love to know more, and glad to see videos about them :D

[@sulman1755]

I am from Indus valley region in modern day Pakistan. If you visit old villages there, you would often find burried pieces of pottery and other archeological stuff at the outer edge of those villages usually near relatively high grounds or eroded cliffs. Villagers there just don’t care much about them but definitely fascinating for people interested in old civilisations.

[@onemoreguyonline7878]

I am always fascinated with logging into YT because of Simon's surprises on his seven different channels.

[@bjarulez]

Only seven?

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Yeah, he's brilliant at mixing things up to keep us interested💯 He's got some great writers too, I think Karl Smallwood has written for him, and poor Danny in the dungeon as we all know. Free Danny! And where is ETA? (Charles)

[@necromora666]

It's more like 10-11 lol

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[@mischaminxx]

Can we get a more in-depth video on this topic over on geographics?

[@biffyqueen]

The Great Courses has a lecture on this in the course Cities of the Ancient World, and a lot of it is, we don't know. Still it could easily fill up a geographics.

[@mischaminxx]

@@biffyqueen thanks for the heads-up I'll check it out.

[@flamencoprof]

I was lucky enough to be taught about Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro around 1960. Thanks, Mr. Fuller, Headmaster of Point Chevalier Primary School, Auckland, New Zealand; proponent of Yoga, Classical music and Italic handwriting. A true free thinker ahead of his time and thus considered a bit strange by the locals.

[@kellyrobinson6663]

That was a brilliant video thanks so much guys ☺️

[@beachboy0505]

Amazing video, watched it four 👌 times, back to back.

[@Saikotic]

Surprising videos like these are why I subscribed recently

[@marklillquist7955]

WOW!!! That was excellent, thanks man.

[@SingeyLababspa]

Great video,much obliged

[@chas435]

Superbly presented. Thank you!

[@benno291980]

"The Internet: starring Simon Whistler"

[@billhasadeathwish2470]

I’d buy that for a dollar.

[@zacharythebeau163]

I mean he makes up like half my KZbin... He needs a vsauce and binging with babish crossover... I only realized we're missing one because his business blaze joke

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@@zacharythebeau163 the dark web says they are the same person

[@mud7725]

He's a master of KZbin!! With all of his different channels I don't know how he has time for a break. His work ethic is incredible 👏

[@greggaldridge]

Pretty soon we won’t need google. We can just Simon it.

[@bforman1300]

I've been fascinated by this civilization since my mom told me about them 50y ago! Thank you for sharing!

[@trj1442]

Great show. Very interesting. Thanks TT crew.

[@casinodelonge]

Fascinating stuff, it sounds great!

[@Melodystiak1]

Very informative. TY

[@antiisocial]

Very awesome. Ty

[@jacksavage4098]

They didn't engage in warfare, were organized had sanitary facilities and on and on. This is the civilization that should have succeeded. Sad loss for all.

[@MrSeniorGeek]

It seems very plausible, and likely IMO they migrated when the rivers dried up, and are ancestors to present day Indians.

[@siddharthyadavchekkala2845]

They very much engaged in warfare. Why do you think they built all those walls and embankments even far from riverbeds

[@monkwoo]

@@siddharthyadavchekkala2845 If you don't build wall, you are hunter gatherer. If you build wall, you are war engaging civilisation. Please de-colonize your mind.

[@evanhall06]

@@siddharthyadavchekkala2845 wild animals don’t exist now huh?

[@siddharthyadavchekkala2845]

@@evanhall06 Yeah you need metre thick walls for wild animals. Multiple antennate swords were also found in isvc sites.

[@mikkelkjr5784]

8:52 Isn't it the other way around ? Bronze items from casting and copper from sheets of metal ?

[@stephanietarrant9970]

I can't hear the phrase 'indus valley civilization' without thinking of the history of the entire world video

[@franl155]

And, five thousand years later, the Palace of Versailles was built without a single bathroom or toilet - people just did it in corridors and it was cleaned up once a week. I bet it smelled lovely in summer.

[@pn4960]

these are mostly propaganda myths tho ^^

[@Marinanor]

@@pn4960 Care to elaborate? That's exactly what I was taught.

[@TheJMBon]

@@pn4960 No, not propaganda. It's a relatively known and documented fact. Your opinion disagreeing with that just means you are wrong.

[@nicholasbrassard3512]

ah the dark ages

[@TheJMBon]

@@nicholasbrassard3512 This was wayyyy before the dark ages.

[@HerreNeas]

Simon covers so much material because he is one of three twins, differences are subtle but observable. More on Indus culture please.

[@sophitsa79]

I heard he's a Time Lord

[@ElsieDreamWorld]

Thank you so very much for this beautiful and perfect presentation of my most beloved ancient civilization of which I wrote a novel, so much was I interested in it since my early years. Yours is such a complete exposition, so well documented I will download it to keep it safe in my records. Again, thank you so very much.

[@lakshmikanthpadayachi508]

Simply Wow 😍

[@sylviahoffman9440]

This was extremely fascinating. It begs the question: if they were this sophisticated and technologically advanced, what happed to their society and how did their memory get lost thru time?

[@r.awilliams9815]

What happened to them? The wind changed. The monsoon moved eastwards and even with their skill in water conservation, there was no longer enough water to support a major civilization. That's the theory I tend to support, although there are other theories, I'm sure.

[@govindindurkar3100]

suppose our entire earthly civilization were destroyed today with only a few living in remote areas left , how will we rebuild as technology will be lost to the survivors.

[@moeenuddin6467]

Not to forget invasions by barbarians from northeast of Indus Valley.

[@samyeezy3068]

when I start to feel bits of curiousness go through my body I see Simon uploaded

[@stellarob]

Your Simon-senses were tingling today ha

[@amitkumarsingh1709]

I happy to see video on Indus valley Westerners don't give much credit & importance to Indus valley civilization unlike it's contemporary civilization

[@evilwelshman]

It's especially astounding when one considers how important lapis lazuli was to art across the Mediterranean Bronze Age cultures (especially Egypt) whilst Afghanistan (which was part of the area where the Indus Valley Civilisation resided) is more or less the only known source of the material during the period. Meaning, there must have been some form of trade links that spanned the Mediterranean, through Mesopotamia all the way to the Indus Valley.

[@redmeat4vegans62]

I am a Westerner and I have been fascinated by the Indus Valley civilization ever since I found out about it. I think the reason we do not see more on this is that there is not the kind of details we can gather from the other 3 early civilizations. It is ashamed that it seemed to have been destroyed or died out without a thread into the modern day. What really fascinates me and gives me hope for humanity is that there did not seem to be the strict hierarchy in this civilization that was rampant in the other 3. The emphasis on orderliness and hygiene so out of step with what we assume for ancient civilizations, is also fascinating.

[@casinodelonge]

@@redmeat4vegans62 Totally agree with this comment.

[@calebenloe36]

We do lol

[@cbbnarchives2675]

Fascinating doc

[@conservativeokie]

I like the way Simon says “sewerage.”

[@dp6447]

Imagine the technological head start our species could’ve had if this civilization had survived.

[@pedrolugo5634]

Considering most modern technology was invented in the pressure of war im not so sure

[@VS-dr7ys]

It came under pressure to be better than the other

[@nujeru99]

@@pedrolugo5634 yeah ummmm no. The Indus Valley had modern-day drainage and sewage systems without violent invasion of other civilizations-same with their urban planning. War is NOT necessary for technological advancement

[@funderbee]

It did. Vatican basement is the hole, most info goes. Gotta remember, it was illegal to even own a bible at one time

[@REHANKHAN-en5zn]

Circle of life.

[@jeffsmith9305]

This should be your most watched video, due to significance. thank you for making this

[@ArchFundy]

Another thing worth mentioning are the offshore settlements/cities in water over 300 ft. deep that were submerged with the last major rise in sea level.

[@ArchFundy]

@@WeAreAllOneNature Speaking of misassumptions, what you are referring to happened over a period of millions or billions of years. It's ongoing and the movement is about the same speed as your fingernails grow. That has nothing to do with the major sea level rise about 10-15 K yrs ago that was caused by the end of the ice age. Over a very short time, geologically speaking, sea level rose 300-400 ft. There is evidence of this around the world.

[@ArchFundy]

@@WeAreAllOneNature I didn't say it was sinking at that rate. It is crashing into the Asian continent, creating the Himalayas at that rate. And the sea level rise didn't happen over a 10K yr period, but happened quickly, at about 10-15 K yrs ago.

[@martinfoss3894]

Awesome. Imagine. A peaceful sophisticated civilization. Not too many of those. A place John Lennon dreamed of.

[@ilanamillion8942]

Ancient humans were much more advanced that they were given credit for and, no, it was not the result of ancient aliens.

[@dyeeb]

But you can't really be -certain- the aliens didn't help, can you.

[@haroldburrows4770]

@@dyeeb , pretty damn certain buddy. Aint any civilization gonna puddle jump light years, including ours

[@davidoverstreet2875]

It was the result of the revelation of "civilized living" from celestial beings dematerialized in heaven and gradually rematerialized on earth, first 500,000 years ago in Mesopotamia, and then later, 38,000 years ago by Adam and Eve, who arrived in the same manner from a local constellation heavenly world, and were the parents of the later arriving mixed Sumerian and pre- Caucasian races. So it is true that these celestial beings were also alien beings, of origin on another, spiritually divine world.

[@davidoverstreet2875]

@@haroldburrows4770 you're correct. That's why revealed religion is modified to progress slowly. Having said that, it still saves much time in learning what would have been otherwise earned knowledge, through trial and error.

[@manyanful]

many modern investigators do not want to give credit to the Ancients.

[@justsomepersononyoutube9271]

Nice

[@cerboris521]

Imagine if someone who has watched this video ends up going back in time and creates the Indus Valley civilization.

[@santhoshsurya72]

Love indian content❤️🔥

[@donaldwert7137]

Sounds like the Indus Valley civilization may violate Simon's "the past was the worst" rule. At least in some respects.

[@c.l.7525]

I like cats!😺

[@pakde8002]

Simon makes me aware of how much of my knowledge came from reading as I'm frequently surprised by the pronunciation of words I've never heard said aloud, for example lapis lazuli. I always assumed it was pronounced la zoo lee

[@davefreier7738]

Although the information in Simon's videos is generally very well researched, no such effort seems devoted to pronunciation. In fact, I've seen him acknowledge that he's pretty much winging it on several occasions. This video had multiple questionable pronunciations.

[@Infiniteemptiness]

Sounds almost like living in perfectly planned modern townships

[@sarthsingh3271]

My roots❤

[@saadwaqar3851]

@Kazuha Itō 伊藤 かずは pakistan Afghanistan and India history

[@kayvan671]

Simon is the hardest working man on KZbin

[@demetriwalker1348]

Simon & his team are the most hard working ppl on KZbin I swear. He has a dozen & all interesting.

[@snorgonofborkkad]

He has no team. It’s just him doing everything. That’s why he’s so famous.

[@mathieuleader8601]

Indus Valley is like Switzerland on a giant scale

[@shebbs1]

But with fewer cuckoo clocks.

[@estieglandwr]

Amazing pronunciations 😍

[@Kusum1997sidd]

Cool

[@evilwelshman]

Although not definitively confirmed, one developing and interesting theory backed up by DNA analysis is the idea that the Sumerians (who were regarded as foreigners by the native, Indo-European (edit: sorry, meant Semitic) speaking Akkadians) originated from the Indus Valley, before eventually moving to and ruling over Lower Mesopotamia.

[@vigneshkr7072]

That could indicate they were around even before Mesopotamian Civilization.

[@yet.4587]

"Indo-European speaking Akkadians" you definitely know what you are talking about

[@mushtaqbhat1895]

Possible. But then why would they have to reinvent the script? Perhaps they migrated very far back in time, having apparently better sea faring technology?

[@jacobread5312]

Very nice beard ya have there, friend.

[@grizzerotwofour7858]

Their untranslated writing is the main reason the indus valley is so obscure. No writing means no stories to get lay people interested, which in turn means less scholarship

[@Charlesputnam-bn9zy]

Amazingly their script is similar to that of Rapa-Nui(Easter Island) which remains undeciphered too.

[@buttercxpdraws8101]

Oh dude, pronunciation in metallurgy! Did no one tell you?!

[@Generic42]

Came here to say this 😂

[@msinj]

Same with Mohen yo daro

[@scottwarthin1528]

Some of these tidbits are mind blowing, assumption pummeling facts. Introduction of cotton clothes that early? Pre-Minoan plumbing? Most housing had running water throughout the year? Fascinating stuff.

[@Bronanarival]

Im from Pakistan islamabad i like your channels

[@shanestrains7179]

All hail, simonius whistlerious Subs: AAAHHOO! AAAHHOO!

[@jhairguerrero6156]

Make the Indus Valley great again

[@byron-ih2ge]

ya we are trying within 100 yrs it will be great again. at least a part of it rest has been lost to pakistan.

[@helveticaneptune537]

@@byron-ih2ge you.mean all the indus is i .pakistan? Around 95%, basic geography

[@byron-ih2ge]

@@helveticaneptune537 wdym?

[@AK-bs9rk]

@@byron-ih2ge It's Pakistani not Indian, stop trying to steal other people's history.

[@byron-ih2ge]

@@helveticaneptune537 na not 95 percent majority of its settlements r still in india Over 1400 Indus Valley Civilization sites have been discovered of which 925 sites are in India and 475 sites in Pakistan, while some sites in Afghanistan are believed to be trading colonies according ton wiki

[@bettychatfield2544]

I was in Pakistan twenty years ago and saw some of the sites of the Indus... I felt like they were more sophisticated than some of the cities in Pakistan are today or at least the sanitation was better

[@KarenRose70]

I love how civilization was spelled wrong on the map of the valley

[@netrunningnow]

I heard chickens were also domesticated in the Indus valley

[@ShubhamMishrabro]

I think yes cause they ate chicken

[@uhsleepz]

I clicked on this video the moment I saw it

[@Ujjawal_YouTube]

I am from India and proud of my history and Indus Valley civilization

[@blacksheep6174]

Indians have nothing to do with this

[@nissar_fasil]

@@blacksheep6174 Every modern indian have 60% indus ancestory. Who are you guys 😂😂

[@blacksheep6174]

@@nissar_fasil Indus ? Are u high on cowcola .. it will be gamges valley not indus

[@AK-bs9rk]

Indians please stop trying to steal our history, you stole the name from Indus river, it does not mean you are people of the Indus.

[@jimjiminyjaroo300]

In some places in india they still use that lid system to gain access to the drains.

[@hectordoyle4843]

Majority of indus is in pakistan. India's river is the ganges

[@1iota1420]

I for 1 would love to see more video/history about this area/civilization as it seems we dont know much to begin with... or it contradicts western interpretations.

[@shehriyarkhan3904]

Bruh, it’s Sindhi not Spanish. The ‘J’ in Mohenjo Daro is a hard J.

[@jasons5916]

Yeah, I've never heard it pronounced "Mohenyo." It was really weird and sometimes distracting.

[@snorgonofborkkad]

No one cares.

[@scottydu81]

5:01 they had enchanting tables in the Indus valley? That’s advanced!

[@cabbievonbump]

First settlement dated at around 7000 BCE, wikipedia noted a dating of the Indus River writings (undeciphered) in the area at about 5500 BCE. I remember learning years ago that writing was invented around 6-8k years ago (+/- 4-6000 BCE). I wonder how old the actual invention of writing is?

[@thesocialmisfit]

Just some help in pronouncing Mohenjo Daro. It has origins in Sindhi language, I think. In english, could be broken up as Mow-hun-joe. You already got Daro right. I read somewhere that it refers to a doorway (daro)

[@ishanbajpai6940]

The name literally means a mound of dead bodies. Given to it by R D banerjee an archeologist who first came across the remains of Mohenjodaro.

[@AABraun]

the name is given by the local sindhi people of Sindh, Pakistan and it means " mound of the dead" and sometimes it is not pronounced as mohen rather just moen

[@ishanbajpai6940]

@@AABraun That name was given before Pakistan ever existed.

[@AABraun]

the name "Pakistan" didn't exist before 1947 but the land was there since the beginning ahh.. indian education 🤦

[@ishanbajpai6940]

@@AABraun As I explained earlier that this place was found in as an archaeological dig by R D Bannerjee and the people were not aware that Bronze age Civilization existed in Said land so HOW WILL THEY NAME IT??? Mentioning Pakistan was not necessary then and that was my point, get it?? They don't teach properly in Pakistan or wherever you learned, I guess.

[@JustMe-gz4pu]

Wait wait wait. They made bricks that were exactly 10x20x40 Centimeters? That is a hell of a coincidence.

[@anirudhmohanty209]

Bricks in Indus Civilization were almost always in the 1:2:4 ratio. It's not a coincidence.

[@JustMe-gz4pu]

It’s not the 1:2:4 ratio it’s the use of centimeters.

[@rahulpaturkar1425]

No wars, chill baths, flourished trade with Mesopotamians and Egyptians, standardised weights, excellent drainage and water storage systems, private wells and toilets, advanced sophistication in metallurgy and constructions. Thousands of advanced cities with teeming million population put Indus valley people apart from their contemporaries in civilizational landscape!

[@rhoddryice5412]

1 200 000 000 square kilometres! That's big. More than double earth's total land area. 510 000 000 square kilometres.

[@Charlesputnam-bn9zy]

6:05 the style of this metal statue reminds of some finds from Mesopotamia.

[@ShubhamMishrabro]

Trade happened a lot between Mesopotamia and Egypt and Persia no surprise you find lot of things

[@Charlesputnam-bn9zy]

@@ShubhamMishrabro Which goes a long way to show that ancient civilizations (even prehistoric ones that is 3,000 BC and beyond) were not as primitive as we thought. I remember learning in high school that the - 3,000 Egyptian civilization had one that preceded by 1,000 years. Unfortunately, civilizations being human are mortal.

[@ShubhamMishrabro]

@@Charlesputnam-bn9zy yes

[@jimjiminyjaroo300]

I’ve paddled in the Indus River.

[@samanjj]

Can Indians and Pakistanis appreciate and acknowledge the beauty and thoughtfulness of their ancestors and unite together to aim for a genuine aspiration of their past glory and values?

[@SpeaksYourWord]

Indus valley civilization has nothing to do the modern republic of india.

[@Jaysin412]

In at the start!

[@miliba]

nobody cares

[@singinsanity]

@@miliba apparently you cared enough to comment, dillweed

[@carissaleonard3418]

I've always considered the Indus peoples to possibly be apocalypse survivors because, from what we know so far, it seems as if a few people remembered a way to rebuild and because it worked everyone copied it since it was 'easy' and highly functional. I could see this happening after a near extinction even even among some of the current human populous. Also their writing reminds me of the Voynich manuscript with a hint of runic script.

[@marklillquist7955]

With the latest archeological finds, the narrative may change to become: "The reemergence of human civilization in the four river valleys"

[@selecttravelvacations7472]

Great Title! I’ll wait for it!

[@michaelgraalum381]

The Aegean and greater mediterranean was a great civiliation as well but they were annihilated by Santorini at the dawn of history

[@Charlesputnam-bn9zy]

Someone had said that civilizations are mortal.

[@milksheihk]

""Now lost wax casting technique", Are you sure the "now" is meant to be there? Lost Wax Casting is just the name of the method, because the wax evaporates as it is replaced by metal.

[@singinsanity]

Jay, you’re #1 to me bestie

[@Jaysin412]

Love ya roomie!

[@singinsanity]

@@Jaysin412 love you too hon!

[@jaymatz5881]

thx bb

[@bluebird3281]

I think the ruins in the Indian ocean off the coast should researched more thoroughly.

[@rgnyc]

Minor issue: It is called "lost wax" technique or casting because the wax is lost, not because we've lost the technique (which is how the narration sounds).

[@KahltheGaul]

I typed "Indus Valley" into KZbin, and didn't stop scrolling till I saw the bald head and the beard.

[@dazzawhoo5892]

a little off topic - anyone remember the credit card company simon mentioned a while back he uses for subscriptions etc... and just gets a new number like a burner credit card.. i thought i had saved the details somewhere but... i cant find it

[@darkhobo]

Where are the memes factboi? I need to BLAZE!

[@C_coyle]

>5000 years ago the Indians invented the loo >modern day the great workings of this technology has been lost. History is fascinating

[@AK-bs9rk]

Not Indian. Indian was not even one country before the British united the Indian SUB-CONTINENT.

[@C_coyle]

@@AK-bs9rk shut up

[@AK-bs9rk]

@@eucenor4171 But it is! It's like saying whole of Arabia is/was one country simply because they share a lot of the same culture. It was and is the Indian Sub-continent, never was India as in the country until the British came and united it. We don't want to be one. As a Pakistani I am tired of our history being stolen by Indians. The Indus valley is our history and I would ask you to respect this fact.

[@josephsmith6777]

Didnt alot of tin the most precious ingredient of bronze tin come from there

[@viveka2994]

No, from Britain, cornwall specifically

[@vejayajayaraman2618]

Why no mention of Kheeladi excavations in madurai tamil nadu. So much similarity

[@callmepapa560]

muhhhhh ancestorss

[@pisquared1827]

The puzzlement about the lack of weapons, lack of any writing other than very short messages on seals and short messages that seem to relate to quantities and shipping notes, receipts or manifests, no defensive walls, religious artifacts, statures of rulers, or typical domestic artifacts and lack of any signs of war may have an explanation. An excavation near the Harappan sites revealed a site with chariots, horses, shields and weapons. The explanation might be that the Harappan cities that were excavated were the equivalent of today's industrial estates where things were manufactured, processed, stored and traded - hence they had walls which are designed to protect against theft rather than war. The excavations with chariots and weapons may be a military base, and ordinary people may have lived in a residential suburb in mud, timber and thatch houses which didn't survive the ravages of time. In other words town planning then may have included land use zoning. One particularly interesting fact is their use of a system of a binary system for weight measurements (ie weights in multiples of 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64 times the weight unit), and a denary (base 10) system (in multiples of 1, 10, 100, 1000 for the scoops/jars) for volumes. Why binary? Because a binary system allows you to measure any indivisible weight (eg. a piece of jewelry or a gemstone) with the minimum number of weights on a weight balance. A denary system makes sense for measuring volumes makes sense because you would need the minimum number of scoops or jars to measure volumes when you can reusable the scoops/jars multiple times to measure out a volume, and use your fingers to count out the number of measures. Some people who have carried lexical computer analysis of the frequency and order of the symbols on the seals and impressions in clay stamps, have concluded that these are numbers - ie. the measured weights and jars in order of magnitude, and point to our current binary and denary number representations where the digits are written in order of magnitude in base 2 and base 10 respectively. We know our digital number were invented in India, but we didn't know previously how old they actually are.

[@manyanful]

Interesting but what is written as description in the Indian Cronicals, Was there a war in that area that could have involved in an Nuclear explosion.

[@tjsho417]

What we call the Indus Valley Civilization might actually be the site of the Bharat Dynasty and Hastinapur.

[@mikegrazick1795]

1:20 Adobe Clicking. (Mouse cursor)

[@kingdot4677]

I wonder if any information about this civilization existed in the Library of Alexandria, I know it was a 2,000 year difference but we know a lot about Rome so