It is probable that civilization in India began in the great fertile valleys of the Indus and the Ganges; but the remains of such civilizations have been discovered so far only in the valley of the Indus and some other rivers of the Punjab. The cause of this may be that such remains in the Ganges valley are buried in the thick mud brought down by that river. In the Indus valley discoveries of a very old civilization were made at a place named Mohenja Daro between 1920 and 1930. Here are ruins of a great town much older than the Vedic times, with good streets, houses with drains and bath rooms, quite as well made as those of our time, and even a beautiful public bath or swimming pool. It is clear that the inhabitants had reached a high stage of development. The discovery of similar things in the ruins of Mesopotamia and of Mohenja Daro makes it probable that there was a connection between those two civilizations. In one other point, they are alike. Both these civilization ended between 2,500 BC and 2000 BC by the invasion of tribes of less civilized men who spoke Aryan languages, rather like Sanskrit and old Persian.
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