Show Up W e Science Service Service Most Ancient India Is Revealed in daro Ruins Trade City Uncovered by Archeologists I A MERICAN archeologists I i. i have unearthed a buried city in India showing more vividly than ever before what the most ancient civilization of India was like The ruins found under tinder mounds of earth at daro northwestern India date back five thousand thousand thousand thou thou- sand years in their oldest era daro had homes of burnt brick and the tile brick was just about like modern modem brick in size The houses had bathrooms and drains I that are Ire pronounced superior to the sanitary arrangements in cities of I Iother other civilizations of their time The people were industrious at many lines of skilled labor They made toys for children of cities clUes around the country They were workers in bronze and copper They turned out quantities of beads making some so tiny that forty to an Inch could be strung and boring holes so fine that nothing coarser than a hair would thread these beads As daro was on a trade route the goods of the city were dispatched by ox-load ox or pack to other distant cities It Had Great Floods The picture of a trade town of ancient ancient ancient an an- India as old as the famous ruined city of daro is the result of excavation by two institutions institutions institutions the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the American School of Indic Indie and Iranian Studies It is only within three years that the Indian government has changed its law to permit outside universities and archeological organizations to dig in this tilis region The Indus valley where whre daro stood had its trouble with floods like Ur of the and many another ancient town The field director of the expedition Ernest Ernest Ern Era est Mackay finds that at least three great fl floods attacked the city After such a flood the people were forced to leave the place entirely and in some sequences of the city's history debris pile over the abandoned ruins before settlers came to re re- re- re build After the culture as the oldest civilization at this site 1 Is s named there followed a people of about 2000 B. B C. C who lived in matting matting matting mat mat- ting houses and had only rough paving under their feet These people peo pea pIe made great quantities of pottery which archeologists hope will shed more light on the and trade relations of their era |