Nuclear war in antiquity?

There is evidence that Rama empire(now India) was devastated by nuclear warth.
In the Indus Valley - now Thar Desert, west of Jodhpur found many sites with traces of radioactive ash.

Read these verses from the ancient (6500 BC at the latest) Mahabharata:

"...a single projectile charged with all the power of the universe. A blazing column of smoke and a flame as bright as a thousand suns rose in all its brilliance...a perpendicular explosion with its billowing clouds of smoke...a cloud of smoke rising after its first explosion formed into expanding circles like opening giant parasols..."

It was an unknown weapon iron lightning bolt, a giant messenger of death that burned down the whole valley Vrishnis and Andhakas.
The corpses were so burned, what they could not be identified.
Hair and nails fell out, the pottery broke for no apparent reason, and the birds turned pale.
After a few hours all food was contaminated…, to wash away the ashes, who settled on the soldiers and their equipment, they rushed into the rushing stream, but he was infected.

Before the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, modern mankind could not imagine a weapon as terrible and destructive as described in ancient Indian texts.
Yet they very accurately described the consequences of an atomic explosion.
As a result of radioactive contamination, hair and nails fall out, food becomes unusable.
Bathing in the river gives some respite, although it is not a cure.

When excavations of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro reached street level, they discovered skeletons, scattered on the streets of the ancient city and in the cities, many held various objects and tools in their hands, as if there was an instant, terrible death.
People lay unburied on the streets of the city.
And these skeletons are thousands of years old, even by traditional archaeological standards.
The picture revealed by archaeologists strikingly resembled the picture after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
On one site Soviet scientists found a skeleton, which one background radiation was 50 times greater than normal.

Other cities found in northern India, have signs of high power explosions.
One such city found between the Ganges and the Rajmahal mountains seems to have been exposed to intense heat.
Huge masses of ancient city walls fused together, literally turned into glass!
And there is no sign of a volcanic eruption in Mohenjo-Daro or in other cities.
The intense heat that melt stone, may be explained only by a nuclear explosion or some other unknown weapon.
Cities were completely wiped off the face of the earth.

Human skeletons have been radiocarbon dated to 2500 BC, but we must keep in mind that radiocarbon dating is to measure the amount of residual radiation.
But as a result of exposure to radiation, during a nuclear explosion, the remains seem much younger.

The director of research for the Manhattan Project, Dr. Robert Oppenheimer, was known to be familiar with ancient Sanskrit literature.
In an interview conducted after he observed the first atomic explosion, he quoted Bhagavad Gita:
"Now I have become Death, Destroyer of Worlds".
When asked during an interview at the University of Rochester, seven years after the Alamogordo nuclear test, whether this was the first atomic bomb detonated on Earth, he replied: "Well, in modern history, yes."

ancient cities, stone walls which were fused together and literally turned into glass, find not only in India, also in Ireland, Scotland, France, Turkey and other places.
There is no logical explanation for the vitrification (transition to a glassy state) of stone forts and cities, except from an atomic explosion.
Another curious sign of India's ancient nuclear war is giant crater, located 400 kilometers northeast of Bombay and at least 50,000 years old, could be associated with the nuclear war of antiquity.
No trace of any meteoric material, etc., has been found at the site or in the vicinity, and this is the world's only known "impact" crater in basalt.

Signs of great destruction (from pressure, exceeding 600,000 atmospheres) and intense, abrupt heat (indicated by vitreous balls of basalt - tektites), also found in another known location.
The destruction of the biblical cities of Sodom and Gomorrah(a dense plume of smoke quickly rose, the cloud poured out burning sulfur, the surrounding soil was turned into sulfur and salt so that not even a blade of grass could grow there, and anyone in the vicinity turned into a column of salt) is like a nuclear explosion.
If there were pillars of salt at the end of the Dead Sea(who are still there today) would be ordinary salt, they would disappear with occasional rains.
Instead, these pillars are made of salt, which heavier than usual, and can only be created in a nuclear reaction, such as an atomic explosion.

Every ancient text has references to Sodom and Gomorrah.
It is also known from these sources that happened to Babylon:
"Babylon, the most magnificent of kingdoms, the flower of the Chaldean culture, will be devastated like Sodom and Gomorrah when God destroyed them.
Babylon will never rise again.
Generation after generation will come, but no one else will ever live on this earth again.
The nomads will refuse to camp there, and the shepherds will not allow their sheep to spend the night in that land." - Isaiah, 13:19-20.

Vitreous formations - tektites.

Mystery of Mohenjo-Daro.

For many decades, archaeologists have been concerned about the mystery of the death of the city of Mohenjo Daro in India 3500 years ago.
In 1922, the Indian archaeologist R. Banarji discovered ancient ruins on one of the islands of the Indus River.
They were called Mohenjo-Daro, which means " hill of the dead".
Even then, questions arose: how was this big city destroyed, where did its inhabitants go?
None of them have been answered...

In the ruins of buildings there were no numerous corpses of people and animals, as well as fragments of weapons and traces of devastation.
The only obvious fact was the disaster happened suddenly and did not last long.

Decline of culture - process is slow no evidence of flooding found.
Moreover, there is indisputable evidence talking about massive fires.
The epidemic does not strike people, calmly walking the streets or doing business, all of a sudden and at the same time.
Namely, it was so - this is confirmed by the location of the skeletons.
Paleontological studies also reject the epidemic hypothesis.
With good reason, one can also reject the version of the sudden attack of the conquerors none of the discovered skeletons have any traces, left by cold steel.

A very unusual version was expressed by the Englishman D. Davenport and the Italian E. Vincenti.
They claim that Mohenjo-daro survived the fate of Hiroshima.
The authors give the following arguments in favor of their hypothesis.
Among the ruins scattered pieces of baked clay and green glass come across(whole layers!).
In all likelihood, sand and clay, under the influence of high temperature, first melted, and then instantly hardened.
The same layers of green glass appear in the desert of Nevada.(USA) whenever after a nuclear explosion.
Sample analysis carried out at the University of Rome and in the laboratory of the Italian National Research Council showed: melting occurred at a temperature of 1400-1500 degrees.
Such a temperature in those days could be obtained in the hearth of a metallurgical workshop, but not in a vast open area.

If you carefully examine the destroyed buildings, it seems that delineatedclear area - epicenter, wherein all buildings are swept away by some kind of squall.
From the center to the periphery, the destruction gradually decreases.
The most preserved outlying buildings of the Word, the picture resembles consequences of the atomic explosions in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Is it conceivable to assume that the mysterious conquerors of the Indus Valley possessed atomic energy.
Such an assumption seems incredible and categorically contradicts the ideas of modern historical science.
However, in the Indian epic "Mahabharata" it is said about a certain "explosion", which caused "blinding light, fire without smoke", while "the water began to boil, and the fish were charred".
That this is just a metaphor.
Davenport believes that it is based on some real events.

But back to the city itself...

Mohenjo-Daro occupied an area of ​​about 259 hectares and was a network of quarters (the oldest example of such a layout), separated by wide streets with a developed drainage system, which were divided into smaller ones and built up with baked brick houses.
The dating of this settlement is still the subject of debate.
Radiocarbon analysis and links with Mesopotamia allow us to attribute it to 2300-1750. BC.

When the Indian archaeologists D. R. Sahin and R. D. Banerjee were finally able to look at the results of their excavations, they saw red brick ruins the oldest city in India belonging to the proto-Indian civilization, a city quite unusual for the time of its construction - 4.5 thousand years ago.
He was planned with the greatest meticulousness: streets stretched like a ruler, houses are mostly the same, proportions reminiscent of boxes for cakes.
But behind this "cake" shape, the following structure was sometimes hidden: in the center - a courtyard, and around it - four or six living rooms, a kitchen and a room for ablution (houses with this layout are found mainly in Mohenjo-Daro, the second large city) .
The passages for stairs preserved in some houses suggest that two-story houses were also built.
The main streets were ten meters wide, the network of driveways obeyed a single rule: some went strictly from north to south, and transverse ones - from west to east.

But this monotonous, like a chessboard, the city provided residents with amenities unheard of at that time.
Ditches flowed through all the streets, and from them water was supplied to the houses (although wells were found near many).
But more importantly, each house was connected to a sewerage system laid underground in pipes made of baked bricks and taking all sewage out of the city limits.
It was an ingenious engineering solution that allowed large masses of people to gather in a rather limited space: in the city of Harappa, for example, up to 80000 human.
The instinct of the then urban planners is truly amazing!
Knowing nothing about pathogenic bacteria, which are especially active in a warm climate, but probably having accumulated observational experience, they protected the settlements from the spread of the most dangerous diseases.

The literal translation of Mohenjo-Daro from the Hindi language sounds like "hill of the dead." This is an ancient city that existed 5,000 years ago. The name was given when the remains of the city were discovered in 1922 by archaeologist R. Banerjee. What the city was actually called we do not know.

Mohenjo-Daro is located on the territory of modern India. Until 1922, no one even suspected that an ancient developed civilization once existed here. This discovery greatly puzzled archaeologists. The cause of the death of an entire civilization has not been unambiguously established. To this day, it is not known what happened to the city.

It is strange that in the ruins of the city, archaeologists did not find the mass remains of either people or any animals. No traces of defeat, damage from melee weapons and no weapons at all. The conclusion suggests itself that everything happened quickly and the residents were taken by surprise.

Theories regarding Mohenjo-Daro

The city was located in the Indus Valley, so it is very likely that it could be a flood, although even despite the passage of 5000 years, some traces of the elements should have remained, but they were not found.

The hypothesis of an epidemic is also not confirmed by excavations. The remains of the inhabitants found indicate that they died almost simultaneously.

The reason for the attack on the city was immediately discarded, since no traces of weapons were found on any of the remains found. In any case, from weapons, as we imagine them among the ancient peoples.

There is one more version left and it has not yet been rejected - nuclear strike. Here is the ancient world!

Such a theory, although it looks incredible, but has evidence. For example, archaeologists have discovered solid layers of baked clay and green glass. First, the materials melted, and then instantly cooled. The analyzes carried out showed that the area was exposed to temperatures of 1500 degrees Celsius. A probable epicenter of the explosion was also discovered, where all the buildings were simply demolished.

It is difficult for us to believe that we are only discovering something that has existed for a long time. But how, considering such finds, can one be sure that people 5000 years ago did not use atomic energy.

What do the holy books say

Let us turn to the ancient Indian epic Mahabharata. The place of action is not named, but here is what happens when the mysterious weapon of the gods of pashupati is used:

“... the earth shuddered underfoot, staggered along with the trees. The river stirred, even the great seas were agitated, the mountains cracked, the winds rose. The fire died down, the radiant sun eclipsed ...

White hot smoke, which was a thousand times brighter than the sun, rose in endless brilliance and burned the city to the ground. The water boiled… horses and war chariots were burned by the thousands… the corpses of the fallen were crippled by the terrible heat so that they no longer resembled humans…

About the architecture of the city of Mohenjo-Daro

What was this ancient city like? At first, archaeologists were inclined to believe that this was part of the Sumerian civilization. Further studies made their own adjustments, significant differences from the Sumerians were found. Now the existence of a separate civilization, which is called Proto-Indian, is being considered. Mohenjo-Daro occupied approximately 260 hectares of land and had quarterly buildings.

Clear blocks, parallel streets, or at right angles. I must say that the city was built without zest, but practical. It was well protected from the wind. Although the winds here were probably much less than now in the desert. Many carved seals have been found in Mohenjo-Daro, most of which depict monkeys, parrots, tigers, and rhinos. In itself, this indicates that people who lived at that time observed these animals in abundance. This is now a desert, but once there was a jungle.

The houses are built in the form of boxes, but with interior comfort. There was a complex water supply system, the city sewerage brought wastewater outside the settlement. Swimming pools have been found in some houses. Quite modern by our standards, but that was 5,000 years ago!

In addition to buildings that delighted archaeologists, handicraft tools, agricultural implements, dishes, as well as bronze and copper jewelry were found in the city.

Many questions remain unanswered. But one thing is clear: five thousand years ago, in the city that is now called Mohenjo-Daro, there was a civilization and a developed one at that.

Indian Civilization (Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro)

Modern archeology suggests that the settlement of India by Neolithic farmers mainly came from the north, through Iran and Afghanistan. VI-IV millennia BC the first Neolithic settlements in the foothills of the Indus Valley date back, and approximately the 24th century. BC. - majestic monuments of developed urban culture, known from excavations in Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro.

Brick-built city buildings (houses, palaces, citadels, granaries), pools with a well-established sewage system, and even a shipyard-type structure connected by a canal to the river - all this not only testifies to the high level of urban planning and, consequently, the entire urban civilization, but allows to assume the existence of a developed craft, including bronze casting, and also, which is especially important to emphasize, trade relations with neighbors, primarily with the Sumerian Mesopotamia. It is difficult to say how much the Sumerian culture influenced the emergence of the centers of the Indus civilization and whether these centers should be considered something like centers that arose with the assistance of the Sumerian colonization (there are different opinions on this), but the very fact of influence from the more developed Mesopotamia is undoubted. It should be added to this that the Indian centers were inhabited by Caucasians, anthropologically close to the population of the Middle East region. This, of course, is not about seeing just a Sumerian colony in the Indian cities - there is a different culture, its own script (albeit close to Sumerian), a different type of buildings. Nevertheless, the connections are undeniable, and not only foreign trade, fixed, in particular, by the discovery of Indian seals during excavations in Mesopotamia, but also structural, essential: similar mythological plots (a hero like Gilgamesh with animals), building materials (brick), cultural achievements and technology (primarily bronze and writing).

The cities of the Indus Valley were, unlike the Mesopotamian ones, very short-lived. They flourished quickly and brightly, and just as quickly, for a hitherto unknown reason, fell into decay and disappeared from the face of the earth. Approximately the period of their life is limited to five or six centuries, from the end of the XXIV to the XVIII century. BC. Some evidence suggests that the decline of the centers of Indian urban culture began long before their disappearance and that it was associated with increasing disruptions to normal life, a weakening of order and administration (they were built and settled anywhere, even in the former central streets-squares) and, possibly, , with a change in the course of the Indus and the flooding of cities.

As regards the internal structure of Indian urban society, the data on this subject are unusually scarce. Judging by the existence of enterprises like a shipyard, large buildings such as a palace, huge granaries, there should have existed here approximately the same as in the early societies of Mesopotamia, a proto-state structure with power-property of the ruling elites and an important role of centralized redistribution. Moreover, the very appearance of rich cities with developed handicraft production makes us believe that a considerable agricultural periphery adjoined the cities, due to taxes and duties from which cities were mainly rebuilt and there were sections of the population freed from food production, including administrators, warriors, priests, artisans. . However, nothing more precise and definite can be said: the very fact of social and economic differences, with the complete silence of undeciphered writing (and these are mostly small, 6-8 signs, texts on seals from hieroglyphs and pictographs, the number of which, according to rough estimates, reaches 400 ) gives no reason to speak of slaves, castes, or private owners, although some of the experts sometimes try to do this.

But, be that as it may, one thing has been established quite firmly and definitely today: the Harappan culture of the Indus Valley has disappeared, having almost no significant impact on the culture of the Indo-Aryans that came to replace it with a gap of several centuries, who laid the foundation almost anew for the ancient Indian center of civilization. Perhaps, one significant reservation is needed here: the new focus was formed mainly in the Ganges valley, in areas separated from the centers of the Harappan culture by many hundreds, if not thousands of kilometers. Only the historical unity of India in its usual recent borders, uniting both great river valleys (and even then not taking into account the present, when the Indus Valley was mainly part of Pakistan), encourages specialists to link Harappa and Aryans so closely and, moreover, to look for succession between them.

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In 1922, on one of the islands of the Indus River in Pakistan, archaeologists discovered the ruins of an ancient city under a layer of sand. They named this place mohenjo-daro, which means "hill of the dead" in the local language.

It is believed that the city arose around 2600 BC and existed for about 900 years. It is assumed that during its heyday it was the center of the Indus Valley civilization and one of the most developed cities in South Asia. Lived in it from 50 to 80 thousand people. Excavations continued in this area until 1980. Salty underground waters began to flood the area and corrode the burnt brick of the remaining fragments of buildings. And then, by decision of UNESCO, the excavations were mothballed. So far, about a tenth of the city has been excavated.

What did Mohenjo-Daro look like almost four thousand years ago? Houses of the same type were located literally in a line. In the center of house building there was a courtyard, and around it there were 4-6 living rooms, a kitchen and a room for ablution. The passages for stairs preserved in some houses suggest that two-story houses were also built. The main streets were very wide. Some went strictly from north to south, others from west to east.

Ditches flowed through the streets, from which water was supplied to some houses. There were also wells. Each house was connected to a sewerage system. Sewage was taken out of the city through underground pipes made of burnt bricks. For the first time, perhaps, archaeologists have discovered here the oldest public toilets. Among other buildings, attention is drawn to the granary pool for common ritual ablutions with an area of ​​83 square meters and the "citadel" on a hill - apparently to save the townspeople from floods. There were also inscriptions on the stone, which, however, have not yet been deciphered.

Catastrophe

What happened to this city and its inhabitants? In fact, Mohenjo Daro ceased to exist at once. There are many proofs for this. In one of the houses, the skeletons of thirteen adults and one child were found. People were not killed or robbed; before they died, they sat and ate something from bowls. Others just walked the streets. Their death was sudden. In some ways, it reminded the death of people in Pompeii.

Archaeologists had to discard one after another version of the death of the city and its inhabitants. One of these versions is that the city was suddenly captured by the enemy and burned. But the excavations did not find any weapons or traces of the battle. There are quite a lot of skeletons, but all these people did not die as a result of the struggle. On the other hand, there are clearly not enough skeletons for such a large city. It seems that most of the inhabitants left Mohenjo-Daro before the disaster. How could this happen? Solid mysteries...

“I worked at the excavations in Mohenjo-Daro for four whole years,” recalled Chinese archaeologist Jeremy Sen. - The main version that I heard before coming there is that in 1528 BC this city was destroyed by an explosion of monstrous force. All our finds confirmed this assumption... Everywhere we came across "groups of skeletons" - at the time of the death of the city, people were clearly taken by surprise. An analysis of the remains showed an amazing thing: the death of thousands of residents of Mohenjo-Daro came ... from a sharp increase in radiation levels.

The walls of the houses were melted, and among the rubble we found layers of green glass. It was this glass that was seen after nuclear tests at a test site in the Nevada desert, when sand melted. Both the location of the corpses and the nature of the destruction in Mohenjo-Daro resembled ... the events of August 1945 in Hiroshima and Nagasaki ... Both I and many members of that expedition concluded: there is a possibility that Mohenjo-Daro became the first city in the history of the Earth to be subjected to nuclear bombardment .

Molten layer

A similar point of view is shared by the English archaeologist D. Davenport and the Italian researcher E. Vincenti. An analysis of samples brought from the banks of the Indus showed that the melting of soil and brick occurred at a temperature of 1400-1500°C. Such a temperature in those days could only be obtained in a forge, but not in a vast open area.

What do the holy books say

So it was a nuclear explosion. But is it possible four thousand years ago? However, let's not rush. Let us turn to the ancient Indian epic Mahabharata. Here is what happens when you use the mysterious weapons of the gods Pashupati:

“... the earth shuddered underfoot, staggered along with the trees. The river stirred, even the great seas were agitated, the mountains cracked, the winds rose. The fire died down, the radiant sun eclipsed ...

White hot smoke, which was a thousand times brighter than the sun, rose in endless brilliance and burned the city to the ground. The water boiled… horses and war chariots were burned by the thousands… the corpses of the fallen were crippled by the terrible heat so that they no longer resembled humans…

Gurka (deity. - Approx. Author), who flew in on a fast and powerful vimana, sent one projectile against three cities, charged with all the power of the universe. A sparkling column of smoke and fire flared up like ten thousand suns ... The dead people were impossible to recognize, and the survivors did not live long: their hair, teeth and nails fell out. The sun seemed to tremble in the heavens. The earth trembled, scorched by the terrible heat of this weapon... The elephants burst into flames and fled in madness in different directions... All the animals, crushed to the ground, fell, and from all sides the flames rained continuously and mercilessly.

Well, one can only once again be amazed at the ancient Indian texts that have been carefully preserved for centuries and brought these terrible legends to us. Most of these texts were considered by translators and historians of the late 19th and early 20th centuries to be just a creepy tale. After all, missiles with nuclear warheads were still far away.

Desert instead of cities

Many carved seals were found in Mohenjo-Daro, on which, as a rule, animals and birds were depicted: monkeys, parrots, tigers, rhinos. Apparently, in that era, the Indus Valley was covered with jungle. Now there is a desert. The great Sumer and Babylonia were buried under sand drifts.

The ruins of ancient cities are hidden in the deserts of Egypt and Mongolia. Scientists are now discovering traces of settlements in America in completely uninhabitable territories. According to ancient Chinese chronicles, highly developed states were once located in the Gobi Desert. Traces of ancient buildings are found even in the Sahara.

In this regard, the question arises: why did the once flourishing cities turn into lifeless deserts? Has the weather gone mad or has the climate changed? Let's say. But why did the sand melt at the same time? It was this sand, which turned into a green glassy mass, that the researchers found in the Chinese part of the Gobi Desert, and in the Lop Nor Lake area, and in the Sahara, and in the deserts of New Mexico. The temperature required to turn sand into glass does not occur naturally on Earth.

But four thousand years ago people could not have nuclear weapons. This means that the gods had and used it, in other words, aliens, cruel guests from outer space.

Vasily MITSUROV, Candidate of Historical Sciences

mohenjo-daro(Urdu موئن جودڑو, Sindhi موئن جو دڙو; literally "hill of the dead") is a city of the Indus Valley Civilization. It is the largest ancient city of the Indus Valley and one of the first cities in the history of South Asia, a contemporary of the civilization of Ancient Egypt and Ancient Mesopotamia.

Mohenjo-Daro originated around 2600 BC. e. and was abandoned about nine hundred years later. It is assumed that during its heyday the city was the administrative center of the Indus Valley Civilization and one of the most developed cities in South Asia. According to some versions, its inhabitants were exterminated during the invasion of the Aryans.

The city (or "hill of the dead") was discovered in 1922 by the Indian archaeologist Rakhal Banarji. And for the first time it was seriously studied in the 1930s by the expedition of the British archaeologist John Marshall, who did not fail to note the “identity” of the finds in Mohenjo-Daro with those found in Harappa, 400 km upstream of the Indus. The last major excavations of Mohenjo-Daro were carried out by an American expedition in 1964-1965, but were discontinued due to erosion damage to the excavated buildings.

In earlier studies, the “hill of the dead” was described as a frontier fortress of the Mesopotamian civilization. Mohenjo-Daro stands out among other centers of the Indus civilization with an almost ideal layout, the use of baked bricks as the main building material, as well as the presence of complex irrigation and religious buildings. The ancient city occupied an area of ​​about 259 hectares and was a network of quarters (the oldest example of such a layout), separated by wide streets with a developed drainage system, which were divided into smaller ones. sq. m. and an elevated "citadel" (apparently intended to protect against floods). During its heyday, the population ranged from 30,000 to 40,000 people. The width of the streets in the city reached 10 m. In Mohenjo-Daro, almost the first public toilets known to archaeologists, as well as the city sewerage system, were discovered. Part of the territory of the lower city, where commoners settled, was eventually flooded by the Indus and therefore remains unexplored. For 4500 years, the water (soil) level has risen by 7 meters.

To this day, many archaeologists are concerned about the mystery of the death of the city of Mohenjo-Daro 4500 years ago. In the ruins of the buildings there were no numerous corpses of people and animals, as well as fragments of weapons and traces of ruin. Only one fact was obvious - the catastrophe happened suddenly and did not last long. The decline of culture is a slow process, no traces of the flood were found. Moreover, there is indisputable evidence that speaks of massive fires. The epidemic does not strike people calmly walking the streets or doing business, all of a sudden and at the same time. And that is exactly what happened - this is confirmed by the location of the skeletons. Paleontological studies also reject the epidemic hypothesis. With good reason, one can also reject the version of a sudden attack by the conquerors, none of the discovered skeletons has any traces left by melee weapons.

A very unusual version was expressed by the Englishman D. Davenport and the Italian E. Vincenti. They claim that Mohenjo-Daro survived the fate of Hiroshima. The authors give the following arguments in favor of their hypothesis. Among the ruins, there are scattered pieces of baked clay and green glass (whole layers!). In all likelihood, sand and clay, under the influence of high temperature, first melted, and then instantly hardened. The same layers of green glass appear in the desert of Nevada (USA) every time after a nuclear explosion. An analysis of the samples, carried out at the University of Rome and in the laboratory of the Italian National Research Council, showed that the melting occurred at a temperature of 1400-1500 degrees. Such a temperature in those days could be obtained in the hearth of a metallurgical workshop, but not in a vast open area.

If you carefully examine the destroyed buildings, it seems that a clear area has been outlined - the epicenter, in which all the buildings are swept away by some kind of squall. From the center to the periphery, the destruction gradually decreases. The most preserved outlying buildings In a word, the picture resembles the consequences of atomic explosions in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Is it conceivable to assume that the mysterious conquerors of the Indus River Valley possessed atomic energy" Such an assumption seems incredible and categorically contradicts the ideas of modern historical science. However, the Indian epic Mahabharata speaks of some kind of "explosion" that caused "blinding light, fire without smoke" , while "the water began to boil, and the fish were charred" - What is it - just a metaphor?D. Davenport believes that it is based on real events.