For generations, the story of the ancient world seemed settled. Mesopotamia rose first, followed by Egypt with its pyramids and pharaohs, and alongside them stood the Indus Valley Civilisation. But what if that order was wrong? What if one of humanity’s earliest urban societies began thousands of years earlier than believed, even before Egypt’s first pharaoh ruled the Nile?
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A NEW SCIENTIFIC STUDY IS NOW RAISING THAT POSSIBILITY
Archaeologists studying the site of Bhirran
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