Historic Wednesday

Alamgirpur                 Alamgirpur is one of the most eastern site found in Indus Valley civilization. The most astonishing fact about this site is that it situated along the Yamuna River ,which also suggest that as there may be more other sites along the course of Yamuna river as previously were founded on course of Indus river and on course of Ghaggar-Hakra river.  Recent geochronological, geochemical and geophysical studies hypothesize that the rivers Yamuna, Sutlej and Beas were probably flowing into the palaeo-Ghaggar and that their migrations disconnected the river from its perennial glacial sources  It has been proposed that owing to river avulsions, the Yamuna moved away during 49-10 ka and the connection to the Sutlej was lost during the Early-Holocene (~9 ka). Due to discovery of Site of Alamgir many new things about our history got unfolded. The change of course of rivers may have been one of the reasons of decline of Harap...

          Indus Valley Civilization and it’s Discovery        The Early age of Indian history starts  with the birth of the Indus Valley Civilization (IVC),  also known as Harappan Civilization. The Indus River Valley Civilization, 3300-1300 BCE, also known as the Harappan Civilization, extended from modern-day northeast Afghanistan to Pakistan and northwest India. The Indus Valley was home to the largest of the four ancient urban civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, India and China.   In 1856, British colonial officials in India were busy monitoring the construction of a railway connecting the cities of Lahore and Karachi in modern-day Pakistan along the Indus River valley. As they continued to work, some of the labourers discovered many fire-baked bricks lodged in the dry terrain. There were hundreds of thousands of fairly uniform bricks, which seemed to be quite o...