Once upon a time there was a great civilization with numerous cities and probably inhabited by millions of people.
Today nothing is left but the hollow shells of buildings. No names, not a word of their language, nothing to tell us of their gods…
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This was the Indus Valley Civilization, circa 2,000 B.C. The ruins are spectacular, suggesting an efficient, skillful nation. But we can’t read a single word of their language; we don’t even know what language it was. All those people–and we don’t know the name of a single one of them. Not one.
How thoroughly can we and our works disappear!