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Ancient Indus questions answered by Massimo Vidale, Professor of Archaeology at the University of Padua, Italy and eminent Italian scholar in the field of archaeology. He has numerous articles on this website.

82. Have the remains of a marketplace or shop been found at any of the Indus sites?

Dennys Frenez
Jonathan Mark Kenoyer
Massimo Vidale
Randall Law
Rita P. Wright

Are there any structural remains in any of the Harappan sites to point to a marketplace or shop where goods were bought and sold? What do scholars have to say about the market system in those days, apart from the well-known theory of goods being stored in a storehouse and taken by boats for trade?

Asked by Biswajeet Rath

53. What is meant by the "Sorath Harappan"?

Jonathan Mark Kenoyer
Massimo Vidale

Another answer to a question from you by our panel of leading Indus archaeologists.

84. Is it possible for cotton used by the Indus Valley Civilization to preserved still after all these years?

Gwen Robbins Schug
Jonathan Mark Kenoyer
Massimo Vidale
Rita P. Wright

For arguments sake if we assume the people of IVC wrote manuscripts in such mediums as cotton, is it possible for those manuscripts to be still preserved? If so, under what conditions, would they be preserved?

57. Have any ship wrecked Indus ships been discovered? There should have been many due to the extensive trade with Sumeria over many centuries.

Dennys Frenez
Jonathan Mark Kenoyer
Massimo Vidale
Paolo Biagi
Randall Law

Dennys Frenez

85. What was the function of the figurines? Were they sacrificial objects?

Massimo Vidale
Rita P. Wright

Rita P. Wright and Massimo Vidale answer.

58. Why has the language of Harappa not been deciphered?

Asko Parpola
Jonathan Mark Kenoyer
Massimo Vidale
Nisha Yadav

What are the difficulties which makes it impossible to decipher the Harappan language? Aren't there any similarities with other languages?

Scholars answer another question from site visitors.

88. What role do you think the Rohri flint mines played in the Indus civilization?

Massimo Vidale
Paolo Biagi
Randall Law
Rita P. Wright

Randall Law

60. Who gave the same name "Mound of Dead" (Lothal & Mohenjo-daro) in different languages to these two places?

Dennys Frenez
Massimo Vidale
Mayank Vahia

Another answer to a question from you to our panel of leading Indus archaeologists.

89. What is the relevance of Harappan civilization in today's world?

Gwen Robbins Schug
Massimo Vidale
Mayank Vahia
Nisha Yadav
Paolo Biagi
Rita P. Wright

Answered by Massimo Vidale, Mayank Vahia, Gwen Robbins Schug, Nisha Yadav, Paolo Biagi and Rita P. Wright

61. Is there any research going on in analysing DNA of human remains to identify their origins? If not why not?

Gwen Robbins Schug
Jonathan Mark Kenoyer
Massimo Vidale
Mayank Vahia
Paolo Biagi

Another answer to a question from you by our panel of leading ancient Indus archaeologists.

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