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Lost civilisation discovered beneath the Indian ocean could be older than the Harrappan civilisation
In 2000, a potential submerged city was discovered in the Gulf of Khambhat off the coast of western India. Sonar technology ...
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Researchers Stumble Upon a Lost Underwater ‘City’ During Routine Pollution Survey - It’s Not the Atlantis
Researchers find artefacts, dwellings, and several other objects in a city that could be older than the Indus Valley ...
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Mysterious Civilizations That Disappeared Without a Trace
One of the world's earliest city cultures, it thrived circa 2500 BCE in cities such as Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro. Its ...
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Indus Valley farming started later than thought, radiocarbon study shows
But does the notion that the Indus Valley Civilization evolved from a long ... The new dates also recalibrate the appearance of pottery in the region. Pottery does not show up at Mehrgarh until ...
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No one knows what this ancient script says. Now there’s a $1 million prize to crack the code
That is largely because of the undeciphered script, which was found on artifacts such as pottery and stone ... its relatives originated in the Indus Valley civilization and spread out toward ...
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These 5 cities vanished without a trace. We're finally learning their stories.
The Indus Valley civilization, equal in power to Mesopotamia ... There they finally found it: fourth-century B.C. walls, coins, and pottery buried under centuries of silt. The long-lost city ...
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The 5,000-year-old riddle that could earn you £800,000 if you can crack it
A group of codebreakers could potentially win a prize of £800,000 if they succeed in translating a 5,000-year-old language that has never been deciphered before. This challenge revolves around ...
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Want a Million Dollars? Get Busy Deciphering This Ancient Script.
The Indus Valley civilization, also called the Harappan ... huge fortified walls and exquisite pottery and terra cotta artistry. Since the Archaeological Survey of India announced the first ...
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India Offers $1 Million to Decipher 5,300-Year-Old Indus Valley Script
An ancient Indus Valley seal with mysterious inscriptions. Credit: ALFGRN / CC BY-SA 2.0 The Tamil Nadu government has announced a $1 million reward for anyone who can decode the ancient script of the ...