Indus Civilisation
The civilization which once existed on the banks of Indus river, is recorded to inhabit world's earliest urban civilizations in the entire archeological history of mankind, along with Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt. At one point in history, Indus valley civilization, in its 5000 year old ruins holds a tell tale of two hundred thousand people living in a modern city. They traded goods, travelled vast areas with their merchandises, developed a sophisticated agricultural plane and constructed their housing on modern principles.
Literature, Language and culture.
Well over 400 distinct Indus symbols (some say 600)[46] have been found on seals, small tablets, or ceramic pots and over a dozen other materials. Indus Valley Civilization is often characterized as a literate society on the evidence of these inscriptions. Brief symbols of these inscriptions are unparalleled in any known premodern literate society. Some argue that the Indus system did not encode language, but was instead similar to a variety of non-linguistic sign systems used extensively in the Near East and other societies. Others have claimed on occasion that the symbols were exclusively used for economic transactions, but this claim leaves unexplained the appearance of Indus symbols on many ritual objects, many of which were mass-produced in molds. No parallels to these mass-produced inscriptions are known in any other early ancient civilizations. (to be continued ... )
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