4,000-Year-Old Copper Crown Found in India

Epoch Times ^ | January 1, 2015 | Venus Upadhayaya

[SunkenCiv]

Last Updated: January 4, 2015.

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)

[SunkenCiv]

[BenLurkin]

“The person wearing the crown could be an important person of the society.”— Dr. A.K. Pandey

Hmmmmm....could be.

[BenLurkin]

I wonder what it looked like when it was new.

[SunkenCiv]

Maybe it was a coming out party and the crown was for the debuttante. ;’)

[BunnySlippers]

How do they know it was a crown , and not something else.

[BenLurkin]

Must be that when they put the pieces together it looked enough like other ancients crowns to identify it as such.

[9thLife]

Ooh baby. I want one of those.

[9thLife]

an important clue to the significance of this is to be seen here.

[GeronL]

could also have been a party favor

[P.O.E.]

Seems rather small - part of a larger piece?

[Beowulf9]

“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.

[Pollster1]

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.

[kiltie65]

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.

[SunkenCiv]

thanks!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_faience

http://www.geopolymer.org/archaeology/civilization/papers-dedicated-to-archaeology-in-geopolymer-proceedings

http://www.geopolymer.org/library/archaeological-papers/f-why-djoser%E2%80%99s-blue-egyptian-faience-tiles-are-not-blue

[dsrtsage]

Nearby another crown was unearthed

[Revel]

The word is that Obama found the Gold crown.

[Cronos]

That's pretty far to the East.

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.

[SunkenCiv]

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.

[SunkenCiv]

Is that a brand of rolling papers? :’)