#indus

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The Indus Valley Civilization had one of the world’s earliest urban sanitation systems over 4,000 years ago. In cities like Harappa and Mohenjo-daro, many homes had bathroom areas and water-washed latrines connected to covered street drains.

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2019 repost

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The pathways toward early civilization between c. 12,000 and 1,000 BCE were neither uniform nor linear. In the wake of the last Ice Age, climatic change encouraged communities in different parts of the world to experiment independently with cultivation, domestication, and increasingly settled ways of life. Over long timescales, these experiments produced diverse forms of social complexity shaped by local environments and resources, rather than a single, universal model of development.

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An 1872 sketch of Harappa, an important site from the ancient Indus Valley civilization

Much more about the Indus people and what they've come to mean in modern times here:

Projecting Ourselves Onto the Past

How ancient history reflects modern obsessions

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Redraw of their very first interaction from 2021.... its been so long