The Seven Rivers civilization practiced grid cultivation — a diversified, intensive agriculture that fed millions for centuries without depleting the soils that made it possible.
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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 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 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.
KALIBANGAN AND ITS FIRE ALTARS: ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE VEDIC SACRIFICE
B. B. Lal discovered at Kalibangan structures interpreted as Vedic fire altars. But Vedic sacrifice took place outdoors — an analysis of the archaeological debate.
RAKHIGARHI — THE LARGEST CITY: WHAT THE GREATEST CITY OF THE INDUS TELLS US
Rakhigarhi, in Haryana, is larger than Mohenjo-Daro. Excavations since 2014 and DNA analysis of skeletons reveal what the greatest Indus city tells us.
THE TRAPEZOIDAL WELLS: HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING AND PUBLIC HEALTH
The wells of the 7 Rivers civilization — lined with trapezoidal bricks, up to 30 metres deep, at every crossroads — are the first public health policy in history.
THE UPPER CITY AND THE LOWER CITY: URBAN ORGANIZATION AND SOCIAL COHESION
The cities of the 7 Rivers civilization were divided into upper city, lower city and citadel — no palace, but a common room and a granary for all. (