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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 27 September 2024. River in Asia "Indus Valley" redirects here. For the Bronze Age civilisation, see Indus Valley Civilisation. For other rivers named Indus, see Indus (disambiguation) § Rivers. "Indus" and "Sindhu" redirect here. For other uses, see Indus (disambiguation) and Sindhu (disambiguation ...
Indus Valley Civilisation. Excavated ruins of Mohenjo-daro, Sindh province, Pakistan, showing the Great Bath in the foreground. Mohenjo-daro, on the right bank of the Indus River, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the first site in South Asia to be so declared. Miniature votive images or toy models from Harappa, c.2500 BCE.
Unknown. Achaemenid coin, an imitation of an Athenian coin type, of the sort found in the Kabul hoard. [5] Around 535 BCE, the Persian king Cyrus the Great initiated a protracted campaign to absorb parts of India into his nascent Achaemenid Empire. [1] In this initial incursion, the Persian army annexed a large region to the west of the Indus ...
The Indus Valley civilisation was a Bronze Age civilisation in the northwestern regions of South Asia, lasting from 3300 BCE to 1300 BCE, and in its mature form from 2600 BCE to 1900 BCE. [5][note 1] Together with ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, it was one of three early civilizations of the Near East and South Asia, and of the three, the most ...
[90] [d] It was used as the name of the Indus River and also referred to its tributaries. The actual term 'hindu' first occurs, states Gavin Flood, as "a Persian geographical term for the people who lived beyond the river Indus (Sanskrit: Sindhu )", [ 71 ] more specifically in the 5th-century BCE, DNa inscription of Darius I . [ 91 ]
Mehrgarh (7000 BCE to c. 2500 BCE), to the west of the Indus River valley, [55] is a precursor of the Indus Valley Civilisation, whose inhabitants migrated into the Indus Valley and became the Indus Valley Civilisation. [56] It is one of the earliest sites with evidence of farming and herding in South Asia.
The history of Hinduism covers a wide variety of related religious traditions native to the Indian subcontinent. [ 1 ] It overlaps or coincides with the development of religion in the Indian subcontinent since the Iron Age, with some of its traditions tracing back to prehistoric religions such as those of the Bronze Age Indus Valley Civilisation.
Indus Basin. (Redirected from Indus basin) The Indus basin is the part of Asia drained by the Indus River and its tributaries. The basin covers an area of 1,120,000 km 2 (430,000 sq mi) [1][a] traversing four countries: Afghanistan, China, India and Pakistan, with most of the area lying predominantly in the latter two countries. The Indus basin.