Posted on 01/04/2015 4:30:46 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Indian archaeologists uncovered a 4,000-year-old copper crown in the village of Chandayan, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh this week, from what they believe was the late Indus Valley civilization.
According to Dr. Rakesh Tewari, the director general of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), this is only the second crown discovered at an Indus Valley site in either India or Pakistan. Earlier, a silver crown was found at another late Indus Valley site in what is now the Fatehabad district of Haryana state in northeast India...
The copper crown, decorated with a Carnelian and a Fiance bead [both precious stones], was found on a skull and exposed by laborers while they extracting clay to make bricks in August. Word of the discovery spread around India, and caught the attention of the ASI, which started excavating the site in early December...
During excavation, Pandey also found animal bones and mud pots at the same excavation depth as the burial site, but about 65 feet away. This suggests that an animal was sacrificed during a funeral ceremony for the person whose remains were found.
According to Pandey, another piece of the same crown, a pelvic bone, and femur of the left leg of the person was unearthed along with 21 earthen pots.
One hundred and fifty feet away from the burial site, archaeologists also dug up a habitation site of the same period and found a compact floor, mud walls, and holes for fence posts.
According to Pandey, the discovery is important because this is the first time evidence of a late Indus Civilization habitation was found so far east... artifacts from the Indus Valley civilization have been uncovered over a span of 930 thousand square miles...
(Excerpt) Read more at theepochtimes.com ...
The remnants of a 4,000-year-old copper crown found on a skull from the late Indus Valley civilization period found at village of Chandayan, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. (A.K. Pandey/Archaeological Survey of India)
“The person wearing the crown could be an important person of the society.”— Dr. A.K. Pandey
Hmmmmm....could be.
I wonder what it looked like when it was new.
Maybe it was a coming out party and the crown was for the debuttante. ;’)
How do they know it was a crown , and not something else.
Must be that when they put the pieces together it looked enough like other ancients crowns to identify it as such.
Ooh baby. I want one of those.
could also have been a party favor
Seems rather small - part of a larger piece?
“Seems rather small - part of a larger piece?”
I’m thinking it’s a fragment of the entire crown. Wish they had a schematic to show what they suppose it might’ve been.
Anyone know what a “Fiance bead” is? Carnelian is more or less a kind of quartz, but the bead strikes me as something you put on a ring instead of a diamond if you (a) have no money, or (b) want to get rejected.
Faince is a type of pottery in France...I think fancy glazing on top of terra cotta. Maybe it is a ceramic bead? A carnelian you can pick up on the beach...it kinda looks like a piece of corned beef before it is polished. The sea does polish it somewhat.
The word is that Obama found the Gold crown.
2000 B.C. -- interesting
The Harappan civilisation, we know so little about it. I thought the idea was that it was a mercentile state with no kings but some kind of capitalist oligarchy.
They had a writing system that can’t be read now, too bad really. Probably like a lot of literate civs they kept most of their literature and records on materials that burned.
Is that a brand of rolling papers? :’)
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