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The Indus Valley civilisation employed rulers made of ivory for measuring length circa 1500 BCE. [46] The Mohenjo-Daro ruler is divided into units corresponding to 34 millimetres (1.32 in) and these are further marked in decimal subdivisions with great accuracy, to within 0.13 mm (0.005 in).
According to Mohammad Rafique Mughal, the Cemetery H culture developed out of the northern part of the Indus Valley civilization around 1700 BCE, being part of the Punjab Phase, [1] one of three cultural phases that developed in the Localization Era or "Late Harappan phase" of the Indus Valley Tradition.
Location of Lothal in the Indus Valley and extent of Indus Valley Civilization (green). Before the arrival of Harappan people (c. 3000 BCE), Lothal was a small village next to the river providing access to the mainland from the Gulf of Khambhat. The indigenous people maintained a prosperous economy, attested by the discovery of copper objects ...
Cremation is a method of final disposition of a dead body through burning. [1] ... considered the last phase of Indus Valley Civilisation and beginning of the Vedic ...
Rescue workers recovered 13 bodies from the river. The bride was rescued with serious injuries but succumbed in hospital later. The groom from Chakwal was among those presumed dead.
Indus Valley Civilisation Alternative names Harappan civilisation ancient Indus Indus civilisation Geographical range Basins of the Indus river, Pakistan and the seasonal Ghaggar-Hakra river, eastern Pakistan and northwestern India Period Bronze Age South Asia Dates c. 3300 – c. 1300 BCE Type site Harappa Major sites Harappa, Mohenjo-daro, Dholavira, and Rakhigarhi Preceded by Mehrgarh ...
[3] [news 2] Sharma associated the finding with the Harappan (Indus) civilisation, [news 2] which has been contested, as a Late Harappan or post-Harappan identification is more likely. [ 3 ] [ news 2 ] [ news 5 ] [ note 4 ] Carbon dating has now confirmed that the burials date back to c. 1865-1550 BC, based on "two C-14 (carbon dating) dates ...
The Tarim Basin, with the Taklamakan Desert, and area of the Tarim mummies ( ) with main burial sites. Sir Aurel Stein in the Tarim Basin, 1910. At the beginning of the 20th century, European explorers such as Sven Hedin, Albert von Le Coq and Sir Aurel Stein all recounted their discoveries of desiccated bodies in their search for antiquities in Central Asia. [14]