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with the West It is known that no written proof about anything
in the Saraswati Civilization is available. Still with the archeological
evidences it can definitely be stated that there were links between
Sindhu civilization and those of Sumer and Mesopotamia. All these
civilizations have common link as regards the developed city life,
use of potter’s wheel, vessels of copper and bronze, kiln-burnt
bricks, pictorial writing etc.The seals of the Sindhu pattern
have been discovered in Elam and Mesopotamia also. There was a
flourishing trade between Indus valley and Sumer in these times.
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through land from Baluchistan and partly by sea route. Though Bharatiya
things have been found in Elam etc,no record of any importation in Bharat
is still found. The method of hair-dressing of Bharatiya women was adopted
by the Sumerians. Sir John Marshall had detected the possibility of
India proving ultimately to be the cradle of the Sumerian and later
civilizations in the West.
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Greeks and Babylonians called the cotton by the name of Sindhum or
Sindhu, which points out its association with the Saraswati Civilization.
Some Sumerian myths suggest the name Dilbun to the Saraswati Civilization.
The Sumerian myths say how gods send floods to destroy the mankind
except the one named Ziusudra, who was transferred to the land called
Dilbun, which was described as the land of the rising sun.As the Sindhu
was the only inhabited land in the east, at that time, Dilbun could
be no other land than the Indus valley.
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