ANTIQUITY MISTS
DISCOVERIES IN INDIA. FIVE THOUSAND YEARS OLD. SIGNS OF CULTURED LIFE. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. - (Received Nov. 20, 12.5 p.m.) 1 a ti. , DELHI, Nov. 18. oir John Marshall], director of the general archaeological survey of India; has _ published, : definite conclusions regarding the discoveries of ancient oivilisation in the Punjab and in Sind. Sir J. Marshall states that five thousand years ago the peoples of Sind and Mesopotamia were /living in wellordered, cities. They possessed a high standard of art and craftsmanship, and developed a system- of writing. The sites of the discoveries are Harafa Punjab, and Mohenjodaro, Mesopotamia. . . ■ .
The find© include brick houses, temples, water conduits, crockery, toys, coins and an important number of inscribed .seals. It has been established that the antiquities are closely con'With the Sumeran antiquities in' Southern Mesopotamia, dating from the third/and fourth millenium before Christ. - Sir J. Marshall says it is impossible to exaggerate the importance of the which at present indicate the birth of. Suineran civilisation, in North /India \ • : -■-/
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 20 November 1924, Page 5
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