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Indus Valley script, also known as Harappan, was developed in the third century BC in India, making it one of the oldest known writing systems.
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It is called Harappan because this civilization was discovered first in 1921 at the modern site of Harappa situated in the province of West Punjab in Pakistan.
American Chronicle 2008
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Sam Panthaky/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images A tourist took photos at the ancient Dholavira archaeological site, which contains several major structures from the ancient Harappan civilization, in Kachchh district in Gujarat, Sunday.
India in Pictures 2011
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“This is proved by the fact that various artefacts of Harappan civilisation were found in countries as far as Rome and Mexico,” Dr. Kamat said.
Archive 2008-07-01 Jan 2008
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Otherwise, archeologists know little about the Harappan rulers, except that they were not deified potentates as in Egypt or hereditary royals as in Akkad.
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Harappan civilisation existed, according to conventional dating, from about 2600 BCE to about 1900 BCE, and collapsed on itself for reasons that are still in dispute; those people went - somewhere, they didn't all just die off, there's no evidence for massive deaths and burials of the remains as far as I'm aware.
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In the Indus Valley of prehistoric Pakistan, the Harappan, too, were in the midst of an urban revolution.
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Harappan civilisation existed, according to conventional dating, from about 2600 BCE to about 1900 BCE, and collapsed on itself for reasons that are still in dispute; those people went - somewhere, they didn't all just die off, there's no evidence for massive deaths and burials of the remains as far as I'm aware.
Archive 2008-07-01 Jan 2008
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“This is proved by the fact that various artefacts of Harappan civilisation were found in countries as far as Rome and Mexico,” Dr. Kamat said.
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Even though goddess worship is a living and growing tradition in India starting as early as the Harappan culture of 3000 B.C.E. (if not earlier), there has been a good deal of fluctuation in the fortunes of various goddesses.
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