The Civilization That Disappeared Without a War - Indus Valley Civilization - 2D Animation

A refined woman who knew how to write. Who forged thousands of moahres, left thousands of marks, Carved her words into stone and earth. And today, 5,000 years later, The world's largest scientific Fastest computer The sharpest linguist No one could read a single word of that script. A whole civilization that wants to talk to us And we can't hear at all. This is the story of the Indus Valley Civilization. This is a story of refinement. The one who built the city without a king, Practiced religion without a temple, And finally, vanished so quietly into silence, That for thousands of years, nobody even knew he existed. Now consider Punjab of the nineteenth century. The British engineer is laying a railway line from Lahore to Multan. They need a strong, well-cooked intu. And nearby, at a place called Harpapa, Such kinds of insects are found in abundant quantities right from the ground. Workers keep lifting basket after basket full of them. A strip of several hundred kilometers is laid across these islands. No one had any idea that the very tracks on which the British trains were racing were... They were homes of a lost civilization dating back 4,000 years. People were passing over that civilization every day. And they didn't even know whose coffin they were walking over; the truth came out bit by bit. The fugitive soldier Charles Mason reached as far as the vast mounds of Harappa while touring Punjab in 1829. He mistook them for ruins from Alexander's time, a completely wrong assumption. Then came the survey officer, one after another, and everyone began to suspect that this was something very old, very large. And finally, the car, in 1924, an officer named John Marshall placed an announcement in a London magazine, stating that they might be standing on the threshold of a forgotten civilization, such as had previously been discovered only in Troy and Egypt. The world was stunned, because the items found here—coins, vessels, artifacts—were strikingly similar to those discovered in Mesopotamian excavations. In other words, this civilization was just as old as Egypt and Mesopotamia, but there was one difference—and that difference made it even more mysterious. That is what makes it unique. In Egypt, there are massive pyramids; in Mesopotamia, there are grand palaces and temples; but in Mohenjo-daro and Harappa, there is absolutely nothing. There is no evidence indicating that a king sat here or a priest ruled. Then the question arises: who managed such a large city, so meticulously laid out with such cleanliness and precise measurements? Who ensured water reached every household? There were clogged drains in every alley, filled with garbage and water. It carried away, in that thread, when the rest of the world I never even thought of that. And most astonishing of all The matter, throughout the entire civilization, spans thousands of kilometers of territory. Uniform weight and uniform measurement were used. One Merchants in Lothal weighed goods there or in Harappa using scales. There was only one, such cleanliness, such discipline, without any deviation Some historians believe that here there was a ruler. Every city was an independent state in itself, with its own Following the rules. What is the truth? No one until today I know. And from here, another twist enters the story. Because These traditions did not arise suddenly. Their roots lie hidden somewhere in the mountains of Balochistan was one Mehrgad, a place located about 1,000 years ago. Even thousands of years before the city of Hadrabad was established. For the first time, the people here began cultivating wheat and barley. Done. Started raising sheep and goats. The mud huts Instead of that, solid houses began to rise. The seasons passed by. In small towns, towns grow larger. were taking place. And finally, around 2,600 BCE, these What seems to us suddenly very advanced is actually It was the result of 4,000 years of slow, continuous effort. Someone It wasn't created by an external attacker; it's something made by people themselves. Her sovereignty was hers, on her own land, by her own strength Not anymore. Its merchants crossed the sea and the desert. reached as far as Mesopotamia. The Sumerian people were one They would mention distant trading regions, which They called it Meluha. And most scholars believed It was. The craftsmen here carve elephants' tusks from precious stones. made, especially according to the preferences of foreign customers According to this, that is, this was not merely business. This was one It was a carefully calculated international strategy. But as much as This indifference was directed outward toward the outside world, to that extent. This is still the inner truth of it today. Because of these Lipya is still unsolved. Four hundred out of thousands of coins. More different symbols have been found. The longest one is the lek. that they cannot properly grasp its pattern. Some Scientists claimed this is the real language. Others No, this is merely a symbol. Gods and demons, once upon a time. Signs, no language. The debate is still ongoing today, A civilization that built cities, which still astonish us today. They do. He has lost his voice forever. We are their You can see the house, you can see their toys, their seals You can guess. But their story is in their own words. I can never hear it. Then one day, everything comes to an end. It appeared. A decline in cities began around 1900 BCE. Signs began to appear. By 1700 BCE, most of the large The cities had already become desolate. They were discovered during the excavation of Harrapa. It has been revealed from the skeletons that in this final era, people's Violence had intensified. Diseases such as leprosy and tuberculosis Diseases were spreading. The drains were no longer being cleaned. were built in haste and carelessly. It seemed that the statues were destroyed. On some occasions, people And the carcasses of animals remained lying on the roads, unburied. Buried. There was a time when people believed that outside The Aryan invaders who came from there destroyed this civilization. Some skeletons found at Mohenjo-daro are considered to be of human origin. As if they had been killed in battle. However, in the subsequent investigation It turned out these skeletons were from after the city had fallen into ruin. And the marks found on the skulls are not signs of violence, but rather Then if not the attacker, who else? The answer wasn't found in the ground. The paddy is already in the air. Paddy cultivation in Sindhugati is entirely dependent on the monsoon. It was dependent on this, but the people here never undertook large-scale irrigation. did not adopt the technique, and around 1800 BCE monsoon He began to read weakly, like the river Khagar Hakra, which once flowed for twelve months It became gradually seasonal, then started drying up, with irregular floods. It happened, farming became unstable, food supplies started dwindling, and trade began to collapse, and The city slowly began to lose its soul—this was no mere night of destruction. It wasn't, this was a faint, painful death, spreading over centuries, people Began moving toward the plains of the Ganges, squeezed into small villages, large ones The cities have been replaced by small settlements, and ultimately that civilization which once numbered 30 It once housed 60,000 people, but has since vanished from the pages of history. Yet right here lies the greatest There's a profound question hidden here: has she truly vanished, or does she still live within us, in some other form? It is still alive today. In the middle of the 20th century, another kind of upheaval occurred. During the partition of India, nearly 12,000 items were discovered during the excavation of Mohan Jo Daro. Divided between the two new kingdoms. The necklace of beads was distributed so evenly and with such precision that one could have believed it to be a single strand. It went to two different countries. And the most famous two statues: the priest-king and the dancing girl. They became forever separated from each other. One remained in Pakistan, the other in India. Two descendants of the same civilization, dating back four thousand years, were divided by that very line of partition. And here comes the story's greatest, most astonishing truth. In 2019, scientists extracted DNA from the skeleton of a woman found in Rakhi Garhi, India, dating back nearly four thousand years. The result was astonishing. In this woman's genes, there was no trace of either Central Asian herders or Middle Eastern farmers. His genome, that is, his genetic identity, was directly formed by a mixture of ancient Iranian hunter-gatherers and the earliest indigenous inhabitants of South Asia. And most importantly, this very genetic mixture still persists today throughout South Asia. But their blood, their most fundamental identity, still flows within our veins today; that spirit of sacrifice has never truly ended. His temples were buried beneath railway tracks, his statues multiplied across two nations, his script fell silent forever. Yet his deepest secret—that of who we are, where we came from—remains etched in every single one of our cells to this day. Perhaps this is the true script we have not yet been able to read— a language written not in words, but within our very existence, and the day we fully decipher it, perhaps then we will understand what those people were like five thousand years ago. They lived by the banks of the Indus; they were no strangers. We were the same, just in a different context.