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millennium BCE. You had me so intrigued with this information that I made a more indepth
study of this issue. As of today, archaeologists conditionally call this culture as the
Indus Valley or, using another name, the Harappan civilization named after an
archaeological site in Harappa in the western part of South Asia, Pakistan (West
Punjab).
Figure 49. Map of location of the Harappan civilization
(the 3rd millennium BCE; South Asia). The map shows conventional boundaries of the
ancient civilization and some of its main centres - Harappa, Mehrgarh, Mohenjo-daro
(named after the excavation site), the Indus River and the former riverbed of the holy
river Saraswati (marked with a dotted line) that embodies a feminine deity in mythology.
The Saraswati is a legendary ancient river the area around which was considered
sacred. According to the legend, between the rivers Saraswati and Drishadvati, there
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