Indus Civilization: A 5000 Year Old Enigma

Bronze Age, -2600 BC
The Indus civilization, - one of the most important in the history of humanity -, was born 5000 years before our era on the banks of the eponymous river. Particularly ingenious, these Indians possessed advanced irrigation techniques, transforming arid lands into abundant gardens.
Through the archaeological excavations of the cities of Mohenjo-Daro and Dholariva, the veneration of this people of farmers and artisans for water is highlighted here.
The gigantic water reservoirs of Dholariva, intended to control floods, testify to the degree of advancement of the inhabitants of this valley. Disappeared in an enigmatic way, this civilization continues to fascinate archaeologists.
The Empires of the Indus: The masters of the river

[@mateeva1959]

Csodálatos élmény volt néznem ezt a letúnt civilizációból látott képeket. Köszönet az elkészítőnek.

[@MehmetBilalAdın]

@@mateeva1959 nasıl yapabildiler acaba teknoloji yokken

[@ENERGIE-CONCENTRATION-PAIX]

Merveilleux. Un régal ! Merci beaucoup

[@weaversnest]

What a wonderful narration. Despite its vast geographical spread and advanced urban planning, the Indus Valley Civilization remains shrouded in mystery due to the limited decipherment of its writing system and the enigmatic nature of its social and religious beliefs.

[@Madame702]

There is no mystery, it very clear these are Sumerians. They are one with the technology to do the advance canals. We see this in the Uruk in modern day Iraq. It is their god Eniki that teachs them how to build advance canals and drainage systems. This some sort of colony of the Sumerians.

[@weaversnest]

@@Madame702 Interesting argument. However not very convinced as Sumerian cities like Uruk, Ur, and Lagash were built with ziggurats (stepped pyramids) as prominent religious structures. Urban planning was less uniform, with narrow, winding streets. Whereas Indus Valley Civilization cities like Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro are known for their advanced urban planning, featuring grid-like streets, advanced drainage systems, and uniform, well-planned residential areas with standardized brick sizes. There's a lack of monumental architecture like the ziggurats; instead, they had large public baths, like the Great Bath at Mohenjo-Daro.

[@Madame702]

@@weaversnest Those cities had our creators directly talking to the people cities. Remember, "illijom" are scaly aliens you call Shiva and Vishnu. They needed workers to mine "copper" for the copper fusion technology and "gold" to save their world. They took privative apes in forest and created a slave work force 350,000 years ago. We are their seventh version. Their first attempt cross ape like creatures created the "Gordons" that why Medusa is always shown half man half snake like creature. The Zulu of South Africa have a legend of two scaly aliens brothers called Wowane and Mpanku that put the moon in orbit and hollowed it out to spy on mankind. During America's Gemini and Apollo missions in the1960's we America found alien bases on dark side of the moon and indeed the moon was hollow. Your leaders know that alien race currently watching us and feeding on our fears, and conflict. All nations where informed of this in the 1970's. That why nations try to unite against this terrifying threat to mankind. Aliens or celestial beings are real and they are stirring trouble here on earth.

[@surmai9411]

@@Madame702 was there a need for you to come and make a comment without deep knowledge?? Why so much jealousy madam, accept the truth based on facts and proofs

[@helenamcginty4920]

@@Madame702 were you joking? I thought so.

[@chandioanwar1231]

The ancient Sindh are full of Mysteries, Unbelievable, thanks for this video.

[@jardiniersolitaire7108]

Excellent documentaire. Merci. Je partage.

[@jeannettejimenez5228]

Muchas gracias por su gran colaboración con esta información tan bella❤❤❤❤

[@luciahelenawfreitas1469]

Muito bom. Documentário excelente. Contudo, há trechos, muito longos, sem tradução, espero que outros sejam traduzidos na íntegra. Gratidão e parabéns do Brasil.

[@LucianoZara]

Grandissimi, che cosa MERAVIGLIOSA CI STATE REGALANDO LA NOSTRA VERA ORIGINE dei Nostri Padri Sardi

[@adad-nerari4117]

Comme le Docteur Khaled Alsendi , j'espère que l'on trouvera bientôt la "pierre de Rosette" de la vallée de l'Indus. Les Mésopotamiens avaient l'habitude d'établir des contrats écrits ,même pour les moindres transactions ; il est donc fort probable que l'on trouve,un jour, une tablette écrite dans les 2 langues. Merci à imineo pour ce très intéressant documentaire.

[@solucoesMA]

A sabedoria dos povos antigos é admirável.

[@AncientWildTV]

this video was really informative and well put together! i do wonder, though, if the emphasis on the complexity of the indus civilization might overshadow some of the more simplistic aspects of their daily lives. sometimes it feels like we overanalyze ancient cultures without considering the human side of things. what do you all think?

[@GABEUDEU]

Le Gagar akkra est certainement le fleuve Sarasvati mentionné dans les Védas, ce que de nombreux archéologues occidentaux du XX • siècle ont volontairement ignoré , sujet qui me passionne et que je suis de prêt d'une civilisation qui est probablement la mère de la culture "indienne"je suis dans l'ensemble satisfait de ce documentaire qui sont rares , encore plus en langue française !

[@Gary-g4x2q]

@@GABEUDEU Is this documentary in English or French language. I felt I lost out on a lot of detail because so much French was spoken with no subtitles or English over dubbing. I can't recommend this video to non-French speakers.

[@GABEUDEU]

@Gary-g4x2q I agree with you, but at least this documentary didn't felt in too much stereotypes, sure their is some mistakes

[@ConradRaymond]

@@GABEUDEU I'm in

[@ConradRaymond]

Azteca Chingon

[@ConradRaymond]

💯💀

[@philippebruyere7918]

Excellent !!!!! Merci mille fois

[@DD-vx7vp]

Es un docuental esplendido da gusto verlo arriba España.

[@kevinildarolu1934]

Super reportage merci ❤

[@montserratserranobanon3789]

Gracias por el magnífico documental. Aunque, debo de decir, que la carencia de subtítulos en las locuciones en francés me han dejado una parte sin saber. El resto, ha sido genial! Gracias

[@maurohari1036]

x2

[@juliocesarsantacruzrojas2319]

X3

[@judycook4314]

@@montserratserranobanon3789 Agree.

[@helenamcginty4920]

De acuerdo.

[@kevin-e5h5t]

The land of written language, of 7 day week, of Mathematics. In the modern era, the land of genetic diversity. The home of the urban nomads and gypsy. Long before the Middle Eastern, and Egyptian cultures, the Indus Valley existed 7,000 years ago.

[@shawnific]

Gobekli Tepe in Anatolia existed 12000 years ago, 4000 years before the Indus Valley civilization. Stop posturing.

[@Madame702]

The Indus and Sumerians are related. Their gods are aliens form the Draco star system. 5,000 years ago aliens directly interacted with mankind.

[@Tsahalal]

J'aime le pâté de campagne aux champignons et les documentaires sur les animaux

[@pathanshajahan4177]

🙏🙏🙏🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳 thanks the great information.

[@chrissyf1295]

This would have been even more amazing if there were english subtitles. Still a great documentary.

[@cmoi613]

@@chrissyf1295 You can use translation in options...

[@SachiJones]

@@cmoi613 the issue is there are no captions or subtitles for Serge Cleuziou's commentaries at all so translation doesn't help @crissyf1295 I posted a comment with time-stamped translations

[@noeraldinkabam]

I have translation on but at 5:27 I’ve been listening to the guy and understand next to nothing. And no caps.

[@naturetubepk4289]

The Epicenter of Indus valley civilization is in Pakistan. Why they talk about India?

[@MarisolMarquez01]

The captions don't work for this video ​@@cmoi613

[@Celler2]

this was a great watch, ty for delivering the information as it comes without distorting the facts.

[@12TribesUnite]

How interesting! Thank you!

[@edward2175]

Thank you for a fascinating journey through time. India continues to reveal her mysteries, bringing us closer to our brothers and sisters of the past. I will watch this brilliant documentary again and again.

[@mahmoodhassan392]

Not so called Indian civilization, Indus valley civilization had more connections with Persian Middle Eastern and Near Eastern civilizations than what is today's Endia, It's Pakistani civilization

[@jaychetra3250]

@@mahmoodhassan392 Bullshit, you’re a religious fanatic

[@naturetubepk4289]

Not India thanks Pakistan!

[@NostalgiaforInfinity]

@@mahmoodhassan392 Beta abdull there was no "pakistan" before 1947. It was all India/Bharat. You have no history of your own that predates 1947. You are a byproduct of Bharat.

[@ChetanMundhava-vj8px]

@@mahmoodhassan392 before 1947 pakistan not existed.the western land of India

[@JoségilbertoVasquez-i9k]

Felicitaciones lo explica muy bien y es entendí le ❤

[@LylyMarch-dm2vi]

Merci pour le partage 🙏🕉 pour vous éclairer il y a aussi bluette diot, le chaînon manquant, satanama yuga, enki satya, vidgita investigation, louis galador, Julie couvreur...... ☯️

[@yashbirsingh1673]

Working was decent ,disciplined good food healthy community etc. Very nice

[@GH-yp3vd]

fascinant en tous points cette civilisation!

[@Racha-h6t]

راءع ان تكتشف اشياء مرت عليها عصور وعصور تذهب بنا الى الزمن القديم ونسبح في طياتها معكم شكرا لكم أيها العلماء العظام .

[@Madame702]

This was a city built with knowledge from the Sumerian culture. They are a trading outpost. There 5,000 year old tablets that show this was part of their colony. The only thing they don't have is a "ziggurat". But that only for certain cities where the E.T. would come and directly visit them.

[@nutier]

Amazing video that I like ! Thank you for sharing . Hare Krishna Hare Krishna , Krishna Krishna Hare Hare ! Hare Rama Hare Rama , Rama Rama Hare Hare !

[@leonidsarest165]

Shiva!

[@alejandrasantos5361]

Magnífico documental

[@jpwski9425]

❤ Dziękuję za dodanie języka polskiego, pozdrawiam

[@roberta9833]

Thank you very much! 😃👏👏💐🙏

[@TheRotnflesh]

There are 12,000 year old petraglyphs in India showing the Master of Animals: something we have seen across the world, something thay all ties together about civilization...a savior type of man, a giant.

[@railwaymechanicalengineer4587]

12,000 year old petraglyphs puts this into the time before the "Cataclysms" (or even the time of the "Garden of Eden") when the sky was red 24/7, and the Sun never fully set. Indeed the Sun was NOT the Sun we see today. Earth was tidally locked to its small red/brown dwarf star, today known as Saturn. (Reference: The "Heretic" Professor Velikovsky & his science publication "Worlds in Collision" in our Electric Universe !)

[@eudeslaize8721]

@@TheRotnflesh c'était une marmotte qui mettait le chocolat dans le papier d'aluminium ? On a tous entendu parler de cette formidable légende 😂

[@eddyr1041]

Amazing and smaxingly we still can't read what they wrote😊❤

[@TheRotnflesh]

@@eddyr1041 Sumerian is mostly translated, and by translating it we are finding that cuneiform is a writing style not a language. Some people like Matthew LaCroix feel that original cuneiform may predate Sumerian by several thousand years and that proto-cuneiform Sumerian was rudimentary Sumerian being invented after those people uncovered ancient cuneiform. I like this idea because we know that the Levant and Anatolia have been occupied continuously by pretty much the same haplogroups for over 12,000 years (Turkiye to Iraq to Palestine), and we also know that region has been conquered by many many different people, dynasties, and invaders: from England to China everyone has been conquering the Middle-East (which I find sad). But the reality is: Gobekli Tepe was built by these people's ancestors; so was Jericho, and the original Temple Mount (long before Solomon). Those people cut and shaped megaliths, we just lost the writings of how they did it. And they may have invented cuneiform 12,000 years or more ago.

[@eddyr1041]

These should be a digitizing program to preserve all of these , or maybe there are? If so I would love to get a copy, very intrigued and always interested in language as I often applied it to automaton(programming computer)😊❤

[@kamuranyazgan]

Thanks for the stream.

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[@DharmendraKumar-i4v4k]

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[@cleidemaria8245]

Amo assistir documentários e, este nos trás informações fascinantes.

[@Aytun3553]

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[@NicolasDudic-ph4kd]

Thank you so much Excellent vidéo!!👍

[@Le-Concombre-trahi]

C'est toujours fascinant de savoir qu'il y a plusieurs millénaires, sans machines, les civilisations ont été capables de bâtir des édifices et des villes spectaculaires. Et pour les villes, avec tout le confort moderne : système d'égout et alimentation en eau potable des maisons. Cela est arrivé presque partout sur la planète. Seule l'Afrique fait exception (Oui je sais, il y a l'Égypte et un peu le Soudan).

[@SachiJones]

RE: Missing English subs for the French commentary, here are time-stamped approximate translations of all the parts with Serge Cleuziou. (I don't know much French beyond my one year in high school but I used a speech-to-text converter, then google translate. Any fluent French-speakers, please feel free to correct mistakes.) 4:35 In the 19th century, for example, it was fairly accepted that India was the mother of civilizations. But in fact, the great civilizations could only be those of the Middle East, that of Egypt. Mortimer Wheeler, who was one of the great British archaeologists working in India, called it the Cinderella of civilizations, because it was the youngest. It seemed a bit... At one point, we even thought that it was a pale copy of Mesopotamian civilizations. Before realizing that it was something totally different, in fact. When we started digging, we saw that there was no material that in any way recalled Mesopotamian civilizations. On the other hand, we realized very quickly that we were dealing with enormous cities. There are sites that are more than 200 or 300 hectares. Which means that Monchodaros is probably the largest city in terms of area of ​​all the ancient cities. 14:55 The great rivers are fundamental in the development of the Indus civilization, as in all its agricultural civilizations. It is thanks to them that we can have irrigated agriculture that will allow us to feed cities, where we will increasingly have a different population, which will no longer be a population of peasants, which will become a population of workers, of artisans. In the past, the Indus spread everywhere on an immense flat plain. And it is on this flat plain that we could cultivate, with the risk of seeing our field disappear each year. 28:05 We have a fairly precise idea of ​​the power of the economic system. That is to say, in the large cities of the Indus, in particular in Monchodaros or Arapa, we have extremely powerful crafts that produce products that only this civilization knows how to produce. For example, types of ceramics of a quasi-industrial type. Not to mention everything that has disappeared. The Indus civilization was probably a huge producer of textiles, a huge producer of food products processed with the techniques of the time. Of course, we have no trace of all that. All that has disappeared. But broadly speaking, we can say that in the Indus civilization, certain productions had a status that we would today call industrial. And were exported all over the world, all around, in the Gulf to Mesopotamia. 30:35 One of the problems with the Indus civilization is that these people wrote. We know this, we have thousands and thousands of documents. But they wrote on a medium that was probably perishable. Which means that we have not found the real writings. What we have found is, as it would be with us, street signs, indications on key rings, everything that has remained solid, but the perishable medium has disappeared. So we don't know. We don't have any text. So we saw a civilization that wrote arrive on the scene, but we didn't know. We thought it was simply a magical writing. In fact, it is a civilization that probably has a whole political and administrative functioning, like the Egyptian civilization, like the Mesopotamian one. Obviously, until we have managed to decipher the writing, that is, to find a text long enough to apply the classical deciphering techniques, we do not know, at the present time, even what type of language these people spoke. 38:55 The maritime trade of the Indus civilization is a question that has been addressed for about twenty years. We knew that the rivers had been used for trade between the cities of the Indus. The question of maritime trade is much more delicate. We know of material from the Indus that comes to the Oman peninsula, that is to say the United Arab Emirates and the Sultanate of Oman. We know of some in Bahrain and we know of some in Mesopotamia. Much more than that, we have Mesopotamian texts, a text by Sargon of Akkad, around 2300, which tells us that the boats from Dilmun, which is the area between Kuwait and Qatar, of which the island of Bahrain was at the time the center, came to moor at the quay of his capital, boats from Maghan, which is the peninsula of Oman, and boats from Meloura, which is the country of the Indus. And probably that in fact, it was a multiple trade which involved people from all these areas. It seems that in fact, the people who first launched themselves into the water, they were not the people of the Indus, who are land dwellers. In addition, we must imagine that this entire area of ​​the current Indus delta is an area of ​​immense marshes, a difficult area, really difficult to pass through, and in addition, maritime coasts that are also very difficult to navigate. But after a while, obviously, everyone started to sail. And at that time, the middle of the third millennium BC is a great moment of international trade, trade in which precious objects pass, such as for example the large carnelian beads that the people of the Indus make and who are the only ones to make and know how to make. But also, trade is always fabrics, including precious fabrics that the people of Mesopotamia, the people of the Indus make and probably exchange. And then, it's a whole bunch of things that come from very far away. It comes from elephant ivory combs, it comes from many things that can come, including from the depths of the forests of the Ganges Valley. 42:20 How did these people communicate when they came into contact? Well, we have a Sumerian text, that is to say the end of the third millennium in Mesopotamia, which speaks of a translator from Meluha, that is to say someone who knows the language of the Indus and the Sumerian language. And it's a shame that he didn't leave us a dictionary, by the way, that one. But, in fact, we have to imagine that this whole prehistoric world where people exchange constantly is a multilingual world. It's our world that is becoming a world where people speak one language plus English, now. This world is a world where, often, languages ​​covered only a few thousand people, and the group next door spoke another language. And so, little by little, all these people had to be able to understand each other. 47:35 How did the Indus civilization disappear? Well, the first answer is probably that it didn't disappear, at least like that. What is certain is that from a date that can be fixed, it depends on the authors, but let's say around 2000 BC, we are witnessing what is called a regionalization, that is to say that this enormous cultural unit disappears in favor of regional entities that continue for quite a long time. The big cities have been abandoned, that's for sure, which happens, in fact, very frequently. If the big cities are abandoned, it is basically because the way society functions can no longer support them economically. But that doesn't mean that people have left, it means that they have started to live differently and that this differently is less visible to archaeology. This is one of the real problems, that archaeologists do not know how to see everything.

[@prashantchavan3969]

important information given. thanx to all team members

[@utilisatricectout]

Je ne comprends pas comment pouvons-nous dire qu'on a évolué ? Cela fait 5000 quinzaine population a réussi cet exploit avec des moyens très sommaires. Alors que nous actuellement, nous excellons à nous investir dans des créations qui courent à notre perte 😓😓😓

[@jfk9422]

N’hésite pas à consulter… on soigne beaucoup de névroses de nos jours

[@svanimation8969]

bro indus valley so large this places like financial districts of rich people there where outside vilages too the indus valley spread all over like in milions of square kilometer

[@svanimation8969]

so mostly poor peoples and peasant build it there were ancient universities in india search about them taxshila nalanda after 1200 year ago indian education system got banned by muslim invaders learn about burning of taxshila and nalanda vikaramshila and many more unrecorded places of knowledge

[@PeterWebsdale-g3e]

Fantastic! Very interesting 👍

[@alvaroborja8077]

Buen vídeo!!

[@eddydesmecht3737]

Ces gens étaient définitivement plus malins qu'aujourd'hui !

[@mohammadahmadnaz9232]

Great Documentary. Both governments in India and Pakistan could get together and solve this enigma. our roots. Our ancestors rather than fighting like dogs. so-called civilised people, they are not !! I live in London, England.

[@PietroColombo-em5mz]

@@mohammadahmadnaz9232 Wise words. Greetings from Italy.

[@NostalgiaforInfinity]

That won't happen as long as your country zealously keeps swearing its loyalty to an Arabian cult and its culture, while spitting at its own roots simply because they come from India/Bharat. Your nation is a colony of the 7th century Arabian empire and is stuck in the 7th century Arabian mindset, something that even modern Arabs are moving on from and have embraced modernity and open-mindedness. Which is why Pakistan will always refuse to see eye to eye with India/Bharat, its motherland., as long as it's in the clutches of 7th century fanaticism.

[@krishnarao6242]

We Indians,proud of our Harappan civilization..greatest modernization of cities by the time... Jai Bhim Jai Bharat namoh budhaya

[@bookofeverything3204]

😂😂😂😂 bharat and Indus Valley civilisation dont bode well. Bharat tribe destroyed it

[@orlando5163]

A civilização mental, agora totalmente esquecida .ainda existe no nosso cérebro ,como telepatia , telecinesia , os nossos sonhos , movimento de de estruturas a distância etc...isto sem os cérebros terem nenhuma educação nesse sentido . É tão primordial a nossa tecnologia atual , utilização das matérias pelo braço, utilizando máquinas, não deixa de ser transformação primordial. Regredimos no que já tínhamos alcançado. Tudo o que precisamos de máquinas para avançar tecnologicamente. O cérebro só por si chegava .o ser de energia pura.

[@thierrygrimoud4798]

Exactement

[@SiempreEnBici]

Muy interesante que tengan tan buen manejo del agua, igual que las culturas de Mesoamérica tenían control del agua y hacían uso para facilitar su vida diaria.

[@rafareds7010]

Gracias por un video interesante en lengua castellana

[@Richardbutticus]

Thanks for the mention!

[@sathi6320]

One of the best utube on this topic but a bit of translation on French expert speaking would hv gone the mile. A bit weak on the identity of its people which was alluded by JM the Brit-India archaeologist credited with its discovery who was the head of IAS of India in 1924. And also on why and how it ended which was alluded to by a few of Brits in this field. Thank god for them. The single most brilliant point in this utube was the stamp. But you omitted to say it was as tiny as 1x1 in square stamp. Bravo the "holder" of the stamp was shown.

[@fuzzebeara]

I could enjoy these programs more if the producers would caption the French commentaries. In the intellectual world I’m probably considered a Philistine, but an English translation would be greatly appreciated.

[@stargatis]

@@fuzzebeara I thought you meant because it was dubbed :(

[@karenbenning2166]

Me too.

[@SachiJones]

I posted a comment with time-stamped translations. Maybe they'll pin it 🤙

[@skuzzbunny]

@@SachiJones i can't find it.....??

[@SachiJones]

@skuzzbunny RE: Missing English subs for the French commentary, here are time-stamped approximate translations of all the parts with Serge Cleuziou. (I don't know much French beyond my one year in high school but I used a speech-to-text converter, then google translate. Any fluent French-speakers, please feel free to correct mistakes.) 4:35 In the 19th century, for example, it was fairly accepted that India was the mother of civilizations. But in fact, the great civilizations could only be those of the Middle East, that of Egypt. Mortimer Wheeler, who was one of the great British archaeologists working in India, called it the Cinderella of civilizations, because it was the youngest. It seemed a bit... At one point, we even thought that it was a pale copy of Mesopotamian civilizations. Before realizing that it was something totally different, in fact. When we started digging, we saw that there was no material that in any way recalled Mesopotamian civilizations. On the other hand, we realized very quickly that we were dealing with enormous cities. There are sites that are more than 200 or 300 hectares. Which means that Monchodaros is probably the largest city in terms of area of all the ancient cities. 14:55 The great rivers are fundamental in the development of the Indus civilization, as in all its agricultural civilizations. It is thanks to them that we can have irrigated agriculture that will allow us to feed cities, where we will increasingly have a different population, which will no longer be a population of peasants, which will become a population of workers, of artisans. In the past, the Indus spread everywhere on an immense flat plain. And it is on this flat plain that we could cultivate, with the risk of seeing our field disappear each year. 28:05 We have a fairly precise idea of the power of the economic system. That is to say, in the large cities of the Indus, in particular in Monchodaros or Arapa, we have extremely powerful crafts that produce products that only this civilization knows how to produce. For example, types of ceramics of a quasi-industrial type. Not to mention everything that has disappeared. The Indus civilization was probably a huge producer of textiles, a huge producer of food products processed with the techniques of the time. Of course, we have no trace of all that. All that has disappeared. But broadly speaking, we can say that in the Indus civilization, certain productions had a status that we would today call industrial. And were exported all over the world, all around, in the Gulf to Mesopotamia. 30:35 One of the problems with the Indus civilization is that these people wrote. We know this, we have thousands and thousands of documents. But they wrote on a medium that was probably perishable. Which means that we have not found the real writings. What we have found is, as it would be with us, street signs, indications on key rings, everything that has remained solid, but the perishable medium has disappeared. So we don't know. We don't have any text. So we saw a civilization that wrote arrive on the scene, but we didn't know. We thought it was simply a magical writing. In fact, it is a civilization that probably has a whole political and administrative functioning, like the Egyptian civilization, like the Mesopotamian one. Obviously, until we have managed to decipher the writing, that is, to find a text long enough to apply the classical deciphering techniques, we do not know, at the present time, even what type of language these people spoke. 38:55 The maritime trade of the Indus civilization is a question that has been addressed for about twenty years. We knew that the rivers had been used for trade between the cities of the Indus. The question of maritime trade is much more delicate. We know of material from the Indus that comes to the Oman peninsula, that is to say the United Arab Emirates and the Sultanate of Oman. We know of some in Bahrain and we know of some in Mesopotamia. Much more than that, we have Mesopotamian texts, a text by Sargon of Akkad, around 2300, which tells us that the boats from Dilmun, which is the area between Kuwait and Qatar, of which the island of Bahrain was at the time the center, came to moor at the quay of his capital, boats from Maghan, which is the peninsula of Oman, and boats from Meloura, which is the country of the Indus. And probably that in fact, it was a multiple trade which involved people from all these areas. It seems that in fact, the people who first launched themselves into the water, they were not the people of the Indus, who are land dwellers. In addition, we must imagine that this entire area of the current Indus delta is an area of immense marshes, a difficult area, really difficult to pass through, and in addition, maritime coasts that are also very difficult to navigate. But after a while, obviously, everyone started to sail. And at that time, the middle of the third millennium BC is a great moment of international trade, trade in which precious objects pass, such as for example the large carnelian beads that the people of the Indus make and who are the only ones to make and know how to make. But also, trade is always fabrics, including precious fabrics that the people of Mesopotamia, the people of the Indus make and probably exchange. And then, it's a whole bunch of things that come from very far away. It comes from elephant ivory combs, it comes from many things that can come, including from the depths of the forests of the Ganges Valley. 42:20 How did these people communicate when they came into contact? Well, we have a Sumerian text, that is to say the end of the third millennium in Mesopotamia, which speaks of a translator from Meluha, that is to say someone who knows the language of the Indus and the Sumerian language. And it's a shame that he didn't leave us a dictionary, by the way, that one. But, in fact, we have to imagine that this whole prehistoric world where people exchange constantly is a multilingual world. It's our world that is becoming a world where people speak one language plus English, now. This world is a world where, often, languages covered only a few thousand people, and the group next door spoke another language. And so, little by little, all these people had to be able to understand each other. 47:35 How did the Indus civilization disappear? Well, the first answer is probably that it didn't disappear, at least like that. What is certain is that from a date that can be fixed, it depends on the authors, but let's say around 2000 BC, we are witnessing what is called a regionalization, that is to say that this enormous cultural unit disappears in favor of regional entities that continue for quite a long time. The big cities have been abandoned, that's for sure, which happens, in fact, very frequently. If the big cities are abandoned, it is basically because the way society functions can no longer support them economically. But that doesn't mean that people have left, it means that they have started to live differently and that this differently is less visible to archaeology. This is one of the real problems, that archaeologists do not know how to see everything.

[@geofsawaya394]

Indus Valley and Minoans - both way ahead of their time, technologically and organizationally as truly civilized

[@star-zack]

I am from Bahawalpur the indus valley region❤

[@Kel-d7v]

You guys are going to have to hire an interpreter because even the closed-caption can't pick up what the French man is saying. It, like me, only recognizes the accent. Other than that, great video, though. I really enjoyed it, and I will probably watch it again

[@emiranup]

The Rig Veda mentions the Saraswati River as the Mighty River between Yamuna to the East and river Sutlej to the west. The Saraswati flowed between 6000 and 4000 BCE after which it dried up due to tectonic shifts of the earth.

[@Heisrisin3]

The documentary they stated that the season retreated. How can the ocean water to be rising up there retreating at the same time?

[@sobennymariablandonromana9093]

Excelente información

[@joselreyes1127]

Que suerte de hablar ingles español y frances para entender toda la informacion tan interesante

[@organik1535]

🖖😘merciiiii

[@vickieselep9725]

I liked this video and the voice-over was English and there were English captions for the most part, but there was these sections with a French expert that had no captions and were not translated. I think they were important sections, so why not have captions or a voice over that matched the rest of the video

[@kevinshamrok]

Why is the English narrator given English subtitles but not for the sections in French?

[@jnswarrior]

Muito Top!

[@SJking-gk4go]

Awesome, this valley is an extension of Ancient Khemet and Mesopotamia. Would have been great to have lived there. But of course some catastrophic events drove them away from this site. 😊

[@thehawkseye3412]

Extension? .. They were different civilizations.. Quote below "The Indus Valley Civilization (IVC) was much larger than Mesopotamia, covering 1.2 million square kilometers compared to Mesopotamia's 65,000 square kilometers. The IVC was known for its towns and citadels, while Mesopotamia was known for its religious temples and art.The Mesopotamians practiced polytheism and built temples for worship, while the Indus Valley people may have practiced a polytheistic religion but no special places of worship have been found...."

[@SJking-gk4go]

@thehawkseye3412 no one is talking in terms of distance. Learn to read and understand.

[@thehawkseye3412]

@@SJking-gk4goBack at you sir. Learn to read and understand better. I don't know why you are talking about distance when no one brought it up Also learn to pick your words more carefully. Extension has a specific meaning.

[@SJking-gk4go]

​@@thehawkseye3412you clearly don't understand my comment, or the meaning of the word *extension* How unfortunate for your pride.

[@MariosGalvezf]

Precioso documental de una cultura que nos depara grandes descubrimientos quizas en re aus muros esten los codigos que faltan ,quizas el mapa original diga algo

[@WeTheLittlePeople]

Please allow subtitles for other language speakers -- cant subscribe until you do.

[@gonzaloandres8971]

La escritura del valle del Indo parece coincidir con la escritura Rongo Rongo de la Isla de Pascua.

[@wilmerbecerra4812]

Muy, muy bueno este documental. Sabía de Harappa y Mohenjo Dharo, pero no de Dholavira.

[@WeTheLittlePeople]

Hope you connect the dots to Jiroft, and the archeological evidence that ties Harappan to Jiroft culture -- to Uruk. These were the West, Middle and Eastern worlds.

[@FischerNilsA]

As many already said: the largish- segments with the french-speaking specialist really should be subbed. From what I could gather he has interesting things to say. And I would really have liked to know what the guys at 38 had to say. Urdu, was it?

[@ceciliacotta5035]

La civilización del Oxus también contaba con estanques en sus ciudades, creo. Posiblemente en un comienzo estos estanques sirvieran para cría de peces, que los habitantes cuidaban en común y pescaban según la necesidad para alimentarse, y también para cultivar vegetales en balsas, como las chinampas americanas, teniendo cada familia su furnte de alimentos asegurada con poco esfuerzo y evitando la descomposición del agua quieta así como reduciendo su evaporación mientras se dota al entorno de frescura y oxígeno con las plantas exhuberantes gracias a la abundante disposición de agua... un jardín edible, el Edén!

[@satyachannel1352]

People did not go anywhere, we Indus valley people still alive. There are many figures found like Pashupathy Nath, who stands for lord shiva , yoga postures , the dresses in the figures still we follow, worship , dress up and do those yoga postures. Ours is the oldest civilisation survived and alive. Though we went through 1000 years of brutal invasion, our ancestors resisted and did not give up our culture, Sanatana Dharma. Even today we celebrate ‘Kumbha Mela’ this is mentioned in Mahabharata which is 5000 years old. One coming soon in January 2025 at prayagraj. 40 crore devotees attend. One of the biggest gathering in the world. We are still alive. Westerners do not understand, you need to hear from an Indian to know our History.

[@bookofeverything3204]

😂😂😂 vedas say otherwise… indra-the destroyer of forts… which forts he destroyed 🤔

[@JeanReboul361]

Il y a 5000 ans le climat n’était pas du tout le même, sur ces terres le climat ainsi que la végétation devaient plutôt se rapprocher du climat français actuel. De même pour la Mésopotamie et l’Égypte. La vie était luxuriante sur ces terres, comme au printemps.

[@thelastaustralian7583]

As our current 'World' Civilisation is evolving, as other 'Primal dominant Civilisations came and went .....

[@ziekassoumcoulibaly1952]

Il se trouve a 10km de la ville sur le versant ouest un Domme de forme de pain. Une entrée séjour trouve sur le côté rous. Il peut voir le temps même quand le temps est oublié !-DIEU est grand !: vous lirais le livre du sage qui les a surpris en ses lieux -VIVE le CRÉATEUR !❤

[@thierrygrimoud4798]

Amen

[@veralpereira]

Vídeo muito bom

[@dushyant30suthar]

They weren't from outside. They didn't go anywhere.. They are here.. we are they. Why it's so hard for you to accept.

[@cattymajiv]

Long sections in French with no subtitles make it impossible to understand a lot of this show! Why did they translate some of it, but leave large areas untranslated? That makes no sense!

[@ziekassoumcoulibaly1952]

C'est simboles signifie :l'entré de l'HOMME et leurs protecteur !❤❤

[@danielurvoy433]

Symbole

[@Cryptidfinder]

🙋🏼‍♀️ can anyone tell me how they managed to make water fountains I think that would be an interesting video too 💭

[@Luz-fw1qm]

Que increíbles civilizaciones las antiguas tan tecnológicas y en Europa en la edad media no tenían drenaje y la vida era muy insalubre.

[@aliakbar307]

As per historical records, the vedas came into being afterwards this civilization. Some estimates suggest even the first vedas, Rig Veda coming into being after the destruction of the famous cities of Harappa and Mohen Jodro.

[@HebeBonelli]

Interesante video😊 lástima las partes en francés no traducidas!!

[@oO-_-_-_-Oo]

I left my heart in India and I've never even been there.

[@naturetubepk4289]

This civilization was mainly in current Pakistan! Don't associate current India with it, they are just the beneficiary of the expansion of this civilization. India and Pakistan are now two different countries.

[@RONIT848]

BELONGS TO HINDU NOT PAKISTANIS THEY ARE NOT SOUTH ASIAN GENETIC

[@user-yd7sm4dk2j]

Number of sites in India: 925 sites Pakistan: 475 sites

[@AlvarZavala]

Exelente documental

[@kiwipelado]

Los tres primeros símbolos representan carros de un solo eje. Los cuatro últimos símbolos representan carros de dos ejes. Según mi teoría esta indicando por que lado deben circular cada tipo de vehículo.

[@milderfreddygarciavallejo3945]

Solo para abordar la TECNOLOGIA del trabajo del Hierro: Necesariamente debieron conocer el "crisol" o donde fundir el hierro y ese deposito , tal como lo conocemos ahora: ¿ Sería el GRAFITO ? o un equivalente con temperatura de fusión mas alto al del hierro. Ese material abre la oportunidad de fundir otros metales como el platino que fue trabajado por otras civilizaciones. que han descubierto al respecto?

[@Khagun_Kalki]

Wider if they found any mummies or bodies of humans and animals that could be dna tested, would be cool to know which people and animals were there ❤

[@John_O_Connor]

Sindh "Indus" Civilization, K2 mountain, Mohanjo Daro, Harappa, Kot Diji, Mehrgarh are Pakistani sites ♥️🇵🇰

[@vikashpathak7303]

everything in this documentary can be connected to rigved ...like controlling rivers, worshipping rivers,fortification and agricultural priorities....even it can connected with today's indian people

[@KapilKumar-xx9gx]

Who is saying that they came from Iran they were indigenous (nativ) Don't misinterpret about this great and most developed civilization during it's time

[@theobolt250]

Please can you provide english subtitles for the french spoken parts? I don't speak french!

[@richardhuin3201]

@@theobolt250 you have it !

[@lindacondray7918]

Please translate or set up subtitles for parts spoken in French.

[@Rajput-Sunny-r1o]

Ye Indus valley civilization he hme garv he be hmre purvj thay vanshj he dhanywaad bhut zldi kamyab hoge hm jai shree ram 😊

[@HebeBonelli]

Interesante! Una pena no poder entender los párrafos en francés 😢

[@OscarBertola-f4w]

Observations : --celle ci n'est pas la seule disparition mystérieuse d'une ancienne civilisation, sans laisser de motivation compréhensible. La civilisation camboyenne de Angkor, aussi entourée par des grands bassins, et de magnifiques palais, temples, et édifices. La civilisation Maya, disparue déjà à l' arrivée des Espagnols vers 1520. La civilisation de Sumer, d' Ur et Lagash. La civilisation de Indiens Pueblo, et Anasazi, en Colorado USA.

[@hectorcontestabile]

es muy interesante el documental, pero faltan subtitulos para entenderlo por completo. muy eurocentrico. si usaroa IA, muy mala o mal utilizada

[@Hallands.]

Fascinating, but why would such a well arranged and fertile system of water handling ever be given up? Were the inhabitants killed off in wars, perhaps? Oh, the earthquake moved the Ghaggar-Hakra River! Disaster!