Bronze Age: Harappans
Here we go... ( SLIDESHOW ) The white guy who discovered it: Sir Mortimer Wheeler. It was not discovered until the 1920's. Has there been any civilization more advanced than the Harappan civilization? You can’t really compare the advanced-ness of different civilizations. Each civilization was advanced in its own way. For example, Mesopotamia had huge palaces and ziggurats. And then Egypt’s complicated pyramids. And complicated Egyptian fractions. Then there is a Minoan (very early people in Greece) palace at Knossos in the island of Crete. And the Olmec civilization in Mexico which gave architectural knowledge to the later people such as the Maya. And their complicated calendars. (Yep, the photo shows a calendar!) And the famous vigesimal (base-20) Mayan numbers, with a zero (0). Then there is the Harappan civilization. It has no wonderful architecture, nor is any mathematics/science discovered yet. But beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder. Harappans seem to be the f...