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From: Discover | Date: December 1, 1998| Author: MENON, SHANTI | Copyright information

No golden tombs, no fancy ziggurats. Four thousand years ago city builders in the Indus Valley made deals, not war, and created a stable, peaceful, and prosperous culture.

THE RAILWAY LINKING LAHORE TO MULTAN IN PAKISTAN IS 4,600 YEARS OLD. In truth, the rails were laid down in the middle of the nineteenth century, but to build the railway bed, British engineers smashed bricks from crumbling buildings and rubble heaps in a town called Harappa, halfway between the two cit...

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