Pakistan Today: Indian researchers have used carbon dating techniques on animal remains and pottery fragments to conclude that the Indus Valley settlements could be 8,000 years old, which would make the Indus Valley settlements even older than the Mesopotamian and Egyptian civilisations.
Our study pushes back the antiquity to as old as 8th millennium before present and will have major implications on the evolution of human settlements in Indian sub-continent, Anindya Sarkar, a professor at the department of...