Traces have been found of religious symbols in the whole area, especially close to the stone pyramids for which the civilization is famous. There is some debate on whether or not to classify them as a civilization and also what the meaning of civilization is. In general, the indicators of f...
The civilization was first identified in 1921 atHarappain the Punjab region and then in 1922 atMohenjo-daro(Mohenjodaro), near theIndus Riverin the Sindh (Sind) region. Both sites are in present-dayPakistan, inPunjabandSindhprovinces, respectively. The ruins of Mohenjo-daro were designated a ...
using boats. They knew how to chart their course through dangerous seas using the position of the stars and the movements of the sun and the moon. It is wrong to assume that the Aryans introduced an organized religion or an advanced civilization in the Indian subcontinent in the backdrop of...
The History of India originates with the Indus Valley Civilization and the coming of the Aryans. These two periods are generally defined as the pre-Vedic and Vedic periods. The Indus River Civilization dates back to 2300 – 1750 BC and had two main cities; Harappa in western Punjab and M...
system of southwesternAsia. Itcomprisesthe Tigris and Euphrates rivers, which follow roughly parallel courses through the heart of theMiddle East. The lower portion of the region that they define, known asMesopotamia(Greek: “Land Between the Rivers”), was one of the cradles of civilization. ...
The clothing of ancient Italy, like that of ancient Greece, is well known from art, literature & archaeology. Although aspects of Roman clothing have had an enormous appeal to the Western imagination, the dress and customs of the Etruscan civilization that inhabited Italy before the Romans are ...
From that period on, India functioned as a virtually self-contained political and cultural arena, which gave rise to a distinctive tradition that was associated primarily with Hinduism, the roots of which possibly can be traced to the Indus civilization. Other religions, notably Buddhism and ...