The sculpture "Mother Goddess" is one of the most fascinating Indus Valley Civilisation figures. Fashioned by hand, this clay sculpture originates in Mohenjo-Daro, and dates back to around 2500 BCE.

18. Origin of the ‘Swastika’ symbol can be traced to the Indus Valley Civilization.. 19. There was prevalence of Mother Goddess (Matridevi or Shakti) known through figurines and also evidences ...

Among the many reasons for Indus Valley, Civilization’s decline is repeated floods and other natural factors, such as earthquakes, etc. India from the Paleolithic Period to the decline of the ...

As part of renaming, in 2023, a government of India publication on the occasion of the G-20 summit in New Delhi referred to the Indus Valley Civilization as the Sindhu-Saraswati civilization.

The modern day Indian culture has an antiquity of around 5000 years and was conceived in the valley of River Saraswati and River Indus. The worship of the mother goddess can be traced back to the ...

Rivers, as Bengal’s nurturing mother, shaped the soul of this land and cultural landscape. The ever-flowing water and fertile sediments formed the entire Bengal region, nourishing the Indus ...

Existing information is being dusted off and re-examined. Even its name has changed (from Indus Valley to Harappan; more on this in a bit). It has now been 100 years since efforts began to piece ...

Learn how archaeologists find out about the Indus Valley by looking at artefacts in this BBC Bitesize year 5/6 history guide. BBC Homepage. ... One looks like a mother goddess.

Andrew Robinson reflects on the most tantalizing of all the undeciphered scripts — that used in the civilization of the Indus valley in the third millennium bc.