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Show Keeping Up Wtiiene Science Service. W.NU Service, Most Ancient India Is Revealed in Chanhu-daro Ruins Trade City Uncovered by Archeologists AMERICAN archeologists have unearthed a buried city in Indi, showing more vividly than ever before what the most ancient civilization of India was like. The ruins, found under mounds of earth at Chanhu-daro, northwestern India, date back five thousand thou-sand years in their oldest era. Chanhu-daro had homes of burnt brick, and the brick was just about like modern brick in size. The houses had bathrooms and drains that are pronounced superior to the sanitary arrangements in cities of other civilizations of their time. The people were industrious at many lines of skilled labor. They made toys for children of cities 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 Chanhu-daro was on a trade route, the goods of the city were dispatched by ox-load or pedler's pack to other, distant cities. It Had Great Floods. The picture of a trade town of ancient an-cient India, as old as the famous ruined city of Mohenjo-daro, is the result of excavation by two institutions, institu-tions, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the American School of 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 region. The Indus valley, where Chanhu-daro Chanhu-daro stood, had its trouble with floods, like Ur of the Chaldees and many another ancient town. The field director of the expedition, Ernest Ern-est Mackay, finds that at least three great 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 rebuild. re-build. After the Harappa culture, as the oldest civilization at this site i s named, there followed a people of about 2000 B. C. who lived in matting mat-ting houses, and had only rough paving under their feet. These people peo-ple made great quantities of pottery which archeologists hope will shed more light on the migraions and trade relations of their era. |