Archaeologists digging around in Haryana, India reveal the unearthing of four human skeletons dating back to the oldest civilization in the subcontinent, and one of the oldest in the World.
The ancient civilization earlier termed Indus Valley Civilization, but now more commonly referred to as the Harappan Civilization dates back around 4,000 years and was first discovered at Mohenjo Daro in present day Pakistan in the 1920s.
The present finds have been recovered from a cemetery in the northern state of Haryana, and consist of 2 adult males, a female and a child.
Scholars believe these finds will shed new light on the Harappan people, about whom nothing much is known. The present excavation is a joint operation by archaeologists from India and South Korea at the cemetery at Rakhigarhi village in Hissar district of Haryana.
They have been at it since January 2015.
Original report at the BBC link http://j.mp/1CZvrdJ
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