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• 5500 years old.• Largest civilisation. • 1056 discovered cities.

• May had
population over 5 millions.• Might be oldest in the world.(recently uncovered
evidence is atleast 8000 years old).
Meluhha:• Mesopotamian scribes included trade with great city called
Meluhha and Indus Valley civilization might be the one due to the
architectural evidence.
•Archeologists first thought
they had discovered a city of
toys.• They even found dice.
Those people might have
invented the dice too.
• Sanitation system and Drainage system
• The great granary.
• Citadel
• Burial grounds
•Great bath - Mohenjodaro.

•Two-three storeyed houses.


with attached bathrooms
and flushed toilets
•Garbage disposal

• storm water run off channels


• world’s first planned cities
• wide streets
• burnt bricks of standard sizes. (10cmx20cmx40cm).
1:2:4 ratio maintained everywhere.
•excellent knowledge of metallurgy.
• Pure gold.
• First dentists in the world.
• Domesticate cotton.
• World’s first buttons.
• World’s oldest sign boards.

• Precise measurements. Stone cubes of weights


0.05,0.1,0.2,1,2,5,10,20,50,100,200 amd 500 units

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