RE: Mohenjo-Daro : A 4000 Years Old but Modern City
This was an excellent historical piece. Thanks for sharing it!
The use of bitumen to seal the public bath caught my eye. It was a recurring source of toxic chemicals in the ancient world, namely, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). There was a televised program recently (I think it was on NOVA) that examined the use of bitumen by a prehistoric California Channel Island population, since they used bitumen as a type of plastic to create water jugs. If you're interested, there's more on the subject here: https://ehjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12940-017-0261-1. I know it's not directly on point, but I would be curious if the Mohenjo-Daro residents were exposed to PAHs during the manufacture of bitumen-related products, perhaps as an airborne health problem.
They must have been exposed...from both sources : manufacturing and in water storage in the pool. I seems they din't know the water which they were using for religeous purification was actually harming them slowly. Thanks for sharing. Following you...keep in touch.
Thanks, man. I'm following you too now.
But I heard the term "California Indians" first time...whom does it refer. does it have anything related to India?
Indeed. The first time I had heard of them was from the NOVA TV program. But I don't believe there is any connection at all to the nation-state India. It's just the long standing historical blunder referring to all indigenous people in North America as "Indians."