On Tue January 31 2006 19:13, Indrajit Gupta wrote: > I have news for you. If you are referring to the Indus Valley, from the > evidence of the Mohenjodaro seals, it was not an arid semi-desert as it is > today, 4500 years later, but lush forest, with rhinoceri and tigers in the > woods.
This fact is part of the "Indian History spat" that hit the US. IIRC parts of the settlement existed on the banks of a river called the Saraswati river which dried up, or changed course. Some people want to call it the Saraswati basin civilization or something I believe there is still an underground river in the area and the same river ends up meeting the Ganga (Ganges) and the Jamuna at a tri-junction at Allhabad - the site of the Kumbh-mela. shiv
