September
07
/ 2019
Ancient DNA from India’s Rakhigarhi archaeological site is telling volumes about the destiny of the mysterious Indus Valley Civilization. Around 3000 BC, Neolithic hunters in northern Scotland began settling into new sedentary lifestyles and erected vast stone circles and burial chambers, while in Egypt at this time the first pyramids were built. Meanwhile, the Harappans of South Asia, better known as the Indus Valley Civilization, erected massive brick housing complexes connected with extensive canal systems, yet hardly anything was known of the actual people, until now. At its peak the civilization covered northwestern India and parts of eastern Pakistan and besides ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia it was one of the world’s first urban agricultural societies with five cities holding a
