For 700 Years They Had Running Water — Then an ENTIRE Civilization Was Erased | History for Sleep

For 700 Years They Had Running Water — Then an ENTIRE Civilization Was Erased | History for Sleep Four thousand years ago, the largest civilization on Earth covered more ground than Egypt and Mesopotamia combined — grid cities, covered sewers, a script no one has ever decoded. Then it stopped. This is the story of what they built, how they disappeared, and why the ground has never given back their name. Sources & Further Reading: Kenoyer, Jonathan Mark. Ancient Cities of the Indus Valley Civilization. Oxford University Press, 1998. Possehl, Gregory L. The Indus Civilization: A Contemporary Perspective. AltaMira Press, 2002. Parpola, Asko. Deciphering the Indus Script. Cambridge University Press, 1994. Giosan, Liviu, et al. Fluvial Landscapes of the Harappan Civilization. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2012. Coningham, Robin, and Ruth Young. The Archaeology of South Asia. Cambridge University Press, 2015. Reich, David. Who We Are and How We Got Here. Pantheon Books, 2018. Lawler, Andrew. Why Did the World's Most Advanced Ancient Civilization Collapse? Smithsonian Magazine, 2016. Rao, Shereen. Lothal: A Harappan Port Town. Archaeological Survey of India, 1985. Shinde, Vasant, et al. An Ancient Harappan Genome Lacks Ancestry from Steppe Pastoralists or Iranian Farmers. Cell, 2019. Petrie, Cameron A., ed. Ancient Iran and Its Neighbours: Local Developments and Long-range Interactions. Oxbow Books, 2013.