Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c12.198

c12.198

Overland there was occasional coming and going – the departure of an adventurous caravan to Turkestan, to bring back lapis and turquoise, a foreign pin as a curiosity, and tales of unrest and trouble around the far Caspian shores. What was brought back from Sumer in the ships whose anchors ‘were at Tygris and Euphrates weighed’ we may never know from archaeology alone. Perhaps inscriptions in one or other land will some day tell us: Indian cotton certainly seems an inevitable export for which some adequate return must have been made.