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Oldest writing symbols date to Harappan times
IANS / Islamabad

The oldest writing symbols in the world may date back to the Harappa site of the Indus Valley civilisation, which is believed to have flourished in the Indian sub-continent around the first quarter of the third millennium B.C.

Mr Kenoyer, who has been working on a Harappa project for the last 15 years, gave details of early pottery containing painted designs, beads made of terracotta and cited bone-tools used for weaving as proof of the development of a textile industry in the Ravi phase of Harappa, NNI news agency reported. Mr Kenoyer said he had found a weight belonging to the Harappa site which had emerged in the Indus Valley earlier than the Egyptian civilisation. "The specimens from Harappa suggest that Punjab had been rich in wood architecture," he observed.

He said the Indus Valley had been famous for its indigo cultivation.

 

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