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Ancient Indus questions answered by Mayank Vahia, an astronomer and Indus script expert at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. He has numerous articles on this website, and the essay TIFR Indus Script Research.

77. Was the diet of the Indus valley inhabitants vegetarian or non-vegetarian?

Jonathan Mark Kenoyer
Massimo Vidale
Mayank Vahia

Did the Indus valley civilization people cultivate paddy or wheat? Was their diet vegan or vegetarian? 3 scholars reply.

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

52. When did the Indus Valley Civilization start?

Jonathan Mark Kenoyer
Mayank Vahia
Nisha Yadav
Paolo Biagi

Answer to question 52. from our panel of leading ancient Indus archaeologists.

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.

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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