Les caravansérails devant les villes de la civilisation des 7 Rivières : hospitalité, commerce à longue distance et ouverture au monde de Meluhha.
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Grid Cultivation: Intensive Agriculture Without Soil Depletion
The Seven Rivers civilization practiced grid cultivation — a diversified, intensive agriculture that fed millions for centuries without depleting the soils that made it possible.
La culture en quadrillage : agriculture intensive sans destruction des sols
La civilisation des Sept Rivières pratiquait une agriculture en quadrillage, intensive et diversifiée, qui a nourri des millions de personnes pendant des siècles sans appauvrir les sols.
Lapis Lazuli — from Badakhshan to the Workshops of Mohenjo-Daro
Four thousand five hundred years ago, a stone of deep blue crossed the known world. Quarried in the mountains of Badakhshan — in what is now north-eastern Afghanistan, beyond the Hindu Kush — it travelled two thousand five hundred kilometres through passes, deserts and rivers to reach the workshops of the great cities of the… Continue reading Lapis Lazuli — from Badakhshan to the Workshops of Mohenjo-Daro
THE CEREALS OF MEHRGARH — THE FIRST AGRICULTURES OF THE SUBCONTINENT
9,000 years ago at Mehrgarh, wheat, barley and wild cotton laid the foundations of the 7 Rivers civilization. The starting point of five millennia of resilient agriculture.
THE SACRED FIG TREE IN THE SEALS — CONTINUITY TO CONTEMPORARY HINDUISM
The pipal engraved on Mohenjo-Daro seals is the same sacred tree of India today. A 5,000-year continuity between the 7 Rivers civilization and Hinduism.
THE BOATS OF THE INDUS — NAVIGATION AND MARITIME TRADE
Engraved seals, figurines, Lothal shipyard: the 7 Rivers civilization was also maritime. Routes from the Indus to Sumer, without a war fleet.
THE HOUSES OF THE POOR WITH BATHROOMS: UNIVERSAL DIGNITY AS A PRINCIPLE OF URBAN PLANNING
At Mohenjo-Daro, even the most modest houses had a bathroom and a sewage connection. This urban planning choice 5,000 years ago remains revolutionary today.
THE SMALL SHAMANIC CIVILIZATIONS OF THE KARAKUM: NEIGHBOURS AND SISTERS OF THE SAPTA SINDHU
Gonur Depe, Oasis Civilization, Oxus: the small shamanic civilizations of the Karakum shared gods, languages and sacred drinks with the 7 Rivers civilization.
THE 7 RIVERS AND THE GEOPOLITICS OF WATER
Sarasvatī, Indus, Yamunā, Sutlej: the seven rivers were the political infrastructure of the 7 Rivers civilization. And their disappearance changed everything.