What Is The Disappearance Of The Indus River Valley

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All humans alive today are descendants of the men whom lived in the 10 ancient civilizations, including Mesopotamia, Egypt, Indus River Valley, etc. None of these civilizations exist today, but each left tiny breadcrumbs that give us insight into these societies. While each of these places still puzzle archeologists, the mysteries of one of the civilization have thinned out the hair on many scientists. While Mesopotamia and Egypt were eventually conquered and culturally swallowed, the Indus River Valley society simply vanished. Because of the complete vanish of the civilization, scientists know next to nothing about the people of the Indus River Valley. The conundrum of the disappearance of the Indus River people has spawned several theories and debates. About 70 years ago, a couple scripts and seals from the Indus River Valley were discovered. However, despite the seven decades of work time, scientists have made little progress on understanding what these scripts and seals are trying to say. The little progress can be attributed to a few problems with the …show more content…

Sir Mortimer Wheeler thought that the Indus people got many of its ideas from the Sumerians. On the other hand, Raymond Allchin believes that the developmental process of the Indus civilization was “organic”, and was not affected by any other civilization. Although neither theory can be backed up 100% due to the lack of sufficient evidence, Wheeler’s theory seems unlikely to be true. In the Indus Valley towns, the streets are arranged in a gridiron pattern. They could not have gotten that idea from the nearby civilizations of Ancient Egypt or Mesopotamia because in those societies, the roads were not of the gridiron pattern. Also, the writing of the seals and scripts do not resemble the hieroglyphics of Ancient Egypt nor are they derived from the cuneiform of the

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