More support for my own theory on the Indus Valley Civilisation
Posted On: Jul 10th, 2016 at 15:14
India
Another report on the age of the Indus Valley Civilisation. I’m going to post on this frequently, as the need arises, simply because it supports my own theory of the age of the ancient civilisation that surrounds the Indus River – the place that gives India its name.
I stated long ago that India is the birthplace of civilisation, not Iraq, Egypt or Greece. One only has to visit India to feel its ancient origins. It has a magical effect on the visitor and it’s hard to put into words, but when travelling the incredible land of India one feels as if everything started there. Of course, there is a spanner in the works of this theory, namely Göbekli Tepe in Turkey, arguably the most bizarre site in the world, and certainly the oldest thus far. Göbekli Tepe has been dated to around 12,000 years ago at the very least, but it is not a “civilisation”, it is a one-off, highly technical and highly advanced site that is as confusing as it is bizarre. It’s worth looking it up rather than me rambling on about it at this present moment, because I would like to focus on the Indus.
Again we have a report stating the date of the Indus Valley Civilisation as being at least 8,000 years old. I have stated categorically that it is at least 10,000 years old. In this report it says the Harappan site (now in modern-day Pakistan) is most likely a thousand years older, so we are now talking 9,000 years. There is no doubt this date will be pushed back further and I am extremely confident the date will eventually go well beyond 10,000 years.
At this juncture I would like to point out that I still refer to the Indus Valley Civilisation as being in India. Actually it is partly in India and partly in Pakistan, due to the hastily drawn up map the British created before leaving the country, and which caused the deaths of millions of Indians in what was basically a civil war between rival Hindu and Muslim factions, both of which were forced to head east and west respectively as tensions increased and the rapid creation of new borders meant Hindus were suddenly in Muslim “territory”, and vice versa. Unfortunately still today those events are what are behind the tensions between both the countries who, only 70 years ago, were one united nation under British rule.
Another reason why I refer to India, and not Pakistan, as the birthplace of civilisation is because the location of the origins of the Indus Valley Civilisation were based around the Saraswati River, parts of which no longer exist – the Indus Valley Civilisation constantly changed locations as the rivers running down from the Himalayas into the Arabian Sea changed course or dried up altogether. For that reason the Indus Valley Civilisation covers a massive expanse of land and spread far and wide over thousands of years.
It’s also worth pointing out many of the Hindu religious texts and events are focused on the Saraswati River. thus providing more evidence that Hinduism is by far the oldest religion in the world.
Work will continue on the Indus for hundreds of years, such is the huge area that needs to be looked at. I sincerely hope that my own theory will be proven correct, long before I’m gone, and I am certain it won’t actually be too long from now until it is. I am also certain there are other sites in the region still yet to be discovered. Would I stick my neck out and say the Indus Valley goes back to at least 15,000 years? Well, I’m starting to think it might…
