Posted on 06/02/2016 6:41:38 AM PDT by C19fan
With its impressive pyramids and complex rules, Ancient Egypt may seem to many the epitome of an advanced early civilisation. But new evidence suggests the Indus Valley Civilisation in India and Pakistan, famed for its well-planned cities and impressive crafts, predates Egypt and Mesopotamia. Already considered one of the oldest civilisations in the world, experts now believe it is 8,000 years old - 2,500 years older than previously thought.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
And there oldest settlements were submerged at the end of the last ice age.
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Funny thing: in a semi-arid or arid climate humble mud bricks make a dandy construction material but where there are annual monsoons ... not so much. The subcontinent may have simply had a reason to more generally adopt stone construction earlier. Even when dealing with Egyptian civilization most of everything is still buried, so who knows what is under the Sahara?
Underwater structures offshore speculatively increases the date to pre-ice age, at least 12,000 years.
I laughed at the last two bullet points of the intro to the article:
They now believe the civilisation is around 8,000 years old,
and,
It is thought climate change may not have destroyed the civilisation
Sooo... the civilization dates to about 6,000 BC and climate change didn’t destroy it.
Ahem, if 40 straight days and nights of rain resulting in a big flood isn’t climate change, what is?
The monsoon doesn’t impact the Indus valley all that much, particularly compared to some of the other regions of the Indian subcontinent.
Yep. And they are saying that these sites may have been inhabited for thousands of years before that.
Meanwhile, reckless spending continues because the US is too big to fail....
Interesting post. Something to follow.
“All that much” might still cause mud brick problems. I’m not dissing the achievements of the Indus Valley, just observing that their motivations for building materials might be different.
Fast forward and its the English colonizing India and not vice-versa.
Something that liberals should consider when dealing with the Islamic world.
Evidence of upper paleolithic civilization located in coastal areas during the last glacial period between 24,500 BCE and an abrupt rise in sea level 12,500 BCE is submerged, so clearly such civilization does not exist.
“Underwater structures offshore speculatively increases the date to pre-ice age, at least 12,000 years.”
I think there is ample evidence that civilizations flourished for as much as 30,000 years ago. Otherwise how did people get to Australia? At no time in human evolution has Australia not been an island.
To put this into perspective, the date is 2016. We, Western civilization, essentially date our civilization from the time of Christ. (When I was in school it was BC for Before Christ and AD for After Death. But as government tries to erase Christianity it has become BCE for before the common era.) So people who built technology and traveled huge distances, all things we consider civilized, lived for at least 15 times longer than our current civilization.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the actual date of farming and technology gets pushed ever backwards to include predecessor species.
The civilizations were founded by “Ancient Aliens” aka Bigfoot.(I could not resist.)
Well, the RigVeda does have some almost sci-fi stuff in it.
...DRINK..Y..OUR..OVA..×÷=%INE..
Mystery text from hieroglyphic text. Probably will never know it’s true significance. :|
Then you get the things scientists don’t like to explain, like iron bammers and iron pots imbedded in 3mil yo coal seams, fossilized human footprints alongside those of dinosaurs, signs of pneumatic tools on stone blocks cut for Egyptian monuments, Babylonian batteries, pre-ice age navies mapping Antarctica’s landmass before it had any ice, Egyptian mummies testing positive for Peruvian cocaine, etc. etc. etc.!!
Was it the atomic bomb that made us treat scientists like all-knowing gods? They certainly never had the reputation before that time.
bammers/hammers
No doubt found inside a broken pottery vessel with inscription “&al^ph” ...
Interesting notion.
Egypt gets all the publicity because of the gold and the statues and the pyramids and the mummies, but the Indus Civilization may have been home to a far more ancient and wiser people.
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