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It is the first anthropologically confirmed joint burial of a couple in a Harappan cemetery. The 'couple's grave' was found in the Harappan excavations at Rakhigarhi, Harayana. Evidence points at the couple being buried simultaneously or about the same ti

It is the first anthropologically confirmed joint burial of a couple in a Harappan cemetery. The 'couple's grave' was found in the Harappan excavations at Rakhigarhi, Harayana. Evidence points at the couple being buried simultaneously or about the same ti

1 posted on 02/16/2019 12:42:58 AM PST by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv

You’re on a roll tonight. Lots of really cool stuff ... and lot in places I’ve never heard of. A fun geography lesson.


3 posted on 02/16/2019 12:48:36 AM PST by radu (God bless our military men and women, past and present)
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To: SunkenCiv

Each city in the Indus Valley was surrounded by massive walls and gateways

http://mppsccareerconnect.blogspot.com/2016/03/indus-valley-civilisation-harappan.html


5 posted on 02/16/2019 12:59:39 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: SunkenCiv

I bet one of them wasn’t happy about being buried with their spouse.


17 posted on 02/16/2019 4:33:21 AM PST by moovova
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To: SunkenCiv

It looks like she did a lot of talking and her husband was sick of it.


18 posted on 02/16/2019 5:40:48 AM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Romeohindra and Julietapridyah


19 posted on 02/16/2019 5:42:51 AM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Romeo and Juliet.


20 posted on 02/16/2019 6:25:42 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.S)
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To: SunkenCiv

Looks like he just told her a funny joke.


21 posted on 02/16/2019 6:56:10 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Possibly the man died, then they buried the woman alive. Later began burning bodies and the woman being burned alive on her husband’s funeral pyre.

In India there could be many explanations.


23 posted on 02/16/2019 7:28:21 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: SunkenCiv

“We’re DEAD woman! Now please just SHUT UP!”


24 posted on 02/16/2019 8:15:30 AM PST by oldvirginian ( Buckle up kids, rough road ahead.)
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