The Indus Script: Texts, Concordance and Tables c9.s2.18

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Another revelation is the expansion of the Bronze Age Civilization of Northeast Iran during the second half of the third millennium from the Gorgan plain (Tepe Hissar III and related sites) to Southern Turkmenia (Namazga V and related sites), to Seistan (Shahdad), to ancient Bactria (Dashly and Sapalli in Northern Afghanistan), to Baluchistan and to the Indus valley.²¹ The current excavations of Sibri and Nausharo near Mehrgarh have proved that intrusive NE Iranians became a dominant element in the lower Indus valley around 2000 B.C, and that their merging with the Indus Civilization started the Late Harappan period.²²