December
11
/ 2019
Researchers in India believe that they have solved an age-old riddle. They believe that they have finally identified the location of the mythical Saraswati River. They appear to have found evidence that this ancient river, which is very important in Indian myth and religion, once ran a course on the northwest plains of India. Its course was more or less identical to a modern seasonal stream that flows during the monsoon season. The occurrence “of a large number of Harappan settlements along the banks of the Ghaggar-Hakra stream” has baffled archaeologists for decades according to Scientific Reports. The Harappans were a very important Bronze Age civilization and the earliest known civilization in the region. Why they would create a series
