Swastika found on 5000 year old Indus Valley Civilisation seals in Pakistan is totally unrelated to swastika adopted 1000s of years later by differing pagan philosophies. Earliest swastika was found in Mezine, Ukraine. It is carved on late paleolithic figurine of mammoth ivory, being dated as early as about 10,000 BC.
Archeologists say that 5,000 year-old city of Mohenjodaro, the world's oldest planned urban landscape, is being rapidly corroded by salt and could disappear within 20 years
7000-5500 BCE Mehrgarh I (aceramic neolithic) • 5500-3300 BCE Mehrgarh II-VI (ceramic neolithic)
Seated Mother Goddess Period: Indus civilization, Mehrgarh style Date: 3000–2500 B.C. Culture: Pakistan (Baluchistan) Medium: Terracotta
Private wells were rebuilt over many generations to serve the needs of a large household or neighborhood. This well in DK G area at Mohenjo-daro stands like a chimney because all of the surrounding earth has been removed by excavation.
The ruins had been preserved for thousands of years, but now they're fading fast
Ancient plumbing
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Figure 1. Indus script. (a) Three examples of square stamp seals, each with an Indus text at the top (image credit: J.M. Kenoyer/Harappa.com). Texts were usually written from right to left (inferred, for example, from writing on pottery where a sign is overwritten by another on its left) but this direction was reversed in seals (that is, left to right as in these images) to form correctly oriented impressions. (b) A small subset of the 400 or so signs in the Indus script
A ruins of street at the ancient city of Mohenjodaro (Mound of the Dead), an archaeological (Indus Valley Civilization) site, flourished around 2600-1900 BC, now in Pakistan. Mohenjo-daro has a planned layout with rectilinear buildings arranged on a grid plan. Most were built of fired and mortared brick; some incorporated sun-dried mud-brick and wooden superstructures. The covered area of Mohenjo-daro is estimated at 300 hectares. #archaeohistories
A ruins of street at the ancient city of Mohenjodaro (Mound of the Dead), an archaeological (Indus Valley Civilization) site, flourished around 2600-1900 BC, now in Pakistan. Mohenjo-daro has a planned layout with rectilinear buildings arranged on a grid plan. Most were built of fired and mortared brick; some incorporated sun-dried mud-brick and wooden superstructures. The covered area of Mohenjo-daro is estimated at 300 hectares. The Oxford Handbook of Cities in World History offers a "weak...
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