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- India's Miracle River [11/12/2002]
- Indus cities dried up with monsoon [05/02/2006]
Posted on 02/21/2006 12:07:44 PM PST by SunkenCiv
A department spokesman termed the find, discovered at Farmana Khas, about 12 kilometers from Meham on Julana Road, as very significant. He said till now urban settlements of the civilisation -- Banawali, Bhirdana and Rakhigarhi -- had come to light in the state, but this was the first discovery of the ruins of a city. He said the site of the discovery, popularly known as Daksh Khera, was spread over 32 acres and the ruins were under a three-metre high hillock.
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I think it was the Sarasvati and not the Yamuna....not sure though.
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Press Trust Of India / New Delhi/Chandigarh February 21, 2006
The ruins of a city believed to date back to the Harrappan civilisation have been discovered near Meham in Haryana, the State Archaeology and Museums Department said here on Monday.
A department spokesman termed the find, discovered at Farmana Khas, about 12 kilometers from Meham on Julana Road, as very significant. He said till now urban settlements of the civilisation -- Banawali, Bhirdana and Rakhigarhi -- had come to light in the state, but this was the first discovery of the ruins of a city. He said the site of the discovery, popularly known as Daksh Khera, was spread over 32 acres and the ruins were under a three-metre high hillock.
He said the city would have been located on the banks of the river Yamuna, that could have been flowing through the area in ancient times. Ruins from the Harappan era have also been found at Sanoli in Uttar Pradesh along the ancient course of river Yamuna, he said.
Retired Kurukshetra University Professor Suraj Bhan, had observed that in ancient times, the river Yamuna used to pass through the state at Indri, Karnal, south-west of the western Jamuna canal, Mittathal, Tigrana, Tosham and then towards Nohar Bhadra.
'Detectives' unearth secrets of the past
(Dilmun seals inscribed with Indus Valley inscription)
Daily News the Voice of Bahrain | Monday 6th June 2005 | Rebecca Torr
Posted on 06/24/2005 12:49:38 PM EDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1429854/posts
Trickle of hopeWater has suddenly appeared in the middle of an arid part of north-west India, as a result of January's devastating earthquake in Gujarat. As many as 20,000 people may have died in the magnitude 7.7 tremor. The region is regularly convulsed by earthquakes. Over the years these earthquakes have diverted watercourses and dried up rivers, turning the lush grassland of thousands of years ago into a barren wasteland. Local geologists hope the latest earthquake may help to reverse the process. Eyewitness reports say two-metre-high fountains of water appeared near Bhachau, a town that was totally destroyed by the earthquake. Janardhan Negi of the Geophysical Research Institute in Hyderabad, said the channels could belong to either or both of two ancient rivers in north India. One is the semi-mythical Saraswati, which legend says dried up 4000 years ago. Satellite images have found underground channels in areas where the Saraswati is supposed to have flowed. The second is part of the river Indus, which was diverted after a violent earthquake in 1819. Negi says the 1819 earthquake created a 100-kilometre-long fissure that diverted the river. However, tests have shown that the water is saline.
by Padma Tata and Nicola Jones
February 21 2001
Indus Valley Civlization is fascinating. They don't know what language was spoken. Some say Dravidian or the original language of Vedda people.
I wonder if the river dried up 4,000 years ago as a result of events that resulted in a 2 mile wide impact crater now visible in the dried up Iraq marshes. There could have been other impacts in the Indian Ocean, much closer to the Indus Valley.
I have tried twice to bring up the continuation page. The little blue line creaps across the bar in the lower left corner, it says page opening, then open, then nothing happens. Can you fix this?
Not sure about "continuation", I'm not seeing that, but I'll keep looking. Regarding the impact, not bad, not bad at all... there are some topics around here about that, I'm sure, let's see..
An Impact Event in 3114BC? The beginning of a Turbulent Millennium.
http://personal.eunet.fi/pp/tilmari/tilmari3.htm#bc3114
Posted on 01/03/2003 11:06:06 PM EST by ckilmer
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/816604/posts
Haryana finds its first Harappan city
New Kerala
Posted on 15 Mar 2006 # IANS
By Jaideep Sarin
http://www.newkerala.com/news2.php?action=fullnews&id=25676
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