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I think entire generations of Indians (and presumably Pakistanis) know of this city / civilization.
Hardly “lost”, if lost means people haven’t heard of it.
Is Mohenjo-daro really something that most of people never heard of? I admittedly forgot most of the details about it, but I remember it being mentioned in my history classes in the primary school (in 80s Yugoslavia)...
Yup, learned this at school too, along with the other ancient centers of civilization.
India. Not pakistan.
Every Indian history textbook has had detailed overviews of the indus valley civilization ever since my parents were in school. (they’re in their late 60s). I think entire generations of Indians (and presumably Pakistanis) know of this city / civilization. Hardly “lost”, if lost means people haven’t heard of it.
If someone says.. we lost 10 men in that battle, it doesn’t mean we never knew who they were.
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That's a lovely script. Really quite mysterious. Reminds me of graph theory and topology. I wonder if you can do some kind of weird frequency distribution analysis to classify what the extent specimens may be referring to. I mean given some old civilization, is there a guassian like distribution of say X% documents being financial, Y% religious and so on? And if there is, can you somehow classify these samples into c…
The problem is with some cultures, we know that this approach does not work. There was.. is a tendency for example among pious muslims to burn all books except the quoran at the end of life, to express ones devotion. So this approach would dig up only one book. Now imagine a budhistic precursor, which shuns world possesions and clingyness to status, scribbling notes of debt on papyrus. And you simply get nothing, but…
Do you have an example of notable examples of this in history? or a source of such events? I've never heard of such a case before, so it's quite interesting.
India. Not pakistan.
The correct title should be - Ancient India's lost city of 40k people
All Indian students below the age of 13 have heard of Mohenjo-Daro. I don't remember what year's textbooks it was in for us but the author assertion that it is a place that "most people have never heard of" has almost a billion rebuttals.
This is one of the greatest mysteries in human history. Cracking the IVC "script", historian aren't even sure it's a script, would be key to solving this puzzle.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
The problem is with some cultures, we know that this approach does not work. There was.. is a tendency for example among pious muslims to burn all books except the quoran at the end of life, to express ones devotion. So this approach would dig up only one book. Now imagine a budhistic precursor, which shuns world possesions and clingyness to status, scribbling notes of debt on papyrus. And you simply get nothing, but…
> There was.. is a tendency for example among pious muslims to burn all books except the quoran at the end of life, to express ones devotion. Do you have an example of notable examples of this in history? or a source of such events? I've never heard of such a case before, so it's quite interesting.
Regarding the book as holy property, special item: https://sureshemre.wordpress.com/2014/01/18/on-the-late-adop...
One such example is the delay of book printing in the osman cultural sphere.
Rest is on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quran_desecration#Respectful_d...
And in various scholar articles. Notice that its also a attempt to have cohension and prevent the forming of sects and cults.
https://raseef22.net/article/1070179-book-burning-islamic-hi...