Indus civilisation at 6,000 years before Christ

Indus Valley is 2,000 years older than thought

The beginning of India’s history has been pushed back by more than 2,000 years, making it older than those of Egypt and Babylon.
The latest research has put the date of the origin of the Indus civilisation at 6,000 years before Christ, which contests the current theory that the settlements around the Indus began around 3750 BC.
Ever since the excavations at Harappa and Mohenjodaro in the early 1920s, the civilisation was considered almost as old as those of Egypt and Mesopotamia.

The finding was announced at the International Conference on Harappan Archaeology, organised by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) in Chandigarh at the end of October.
“On the basis of radio-metric dates from Bhirrana (Haryana), the cultural remains of the preearly Harappan horizon go back to 7380 BC to 6201 BC,” BR Mani, ASI joint director general, and KN Dikshit, former ASI joint director general, said in a presentation based on their research.
Excavations were carried out at two sites in Pakistan and four in India.

FRESH RESEARCH has put the date of the origin of the Indus Civilisation at 6,000 years before Christ.

UNTIL NOW, the settlements around the Indus were believed to date back to about 3750 BC.

THE FINDING was announced at the International Conference on Harappan Archaeology, organised by the ASI in Chandigarh.