Decline of Indus Valley Civilization

ssive floods, the shifting and drying up of river beds etc. But none is considered to be the sole reason for the decline of civilization, as there is no con

was gradually transformed in to rural culture with no big structures.

Ruins of archaeological site in Harappa (image obtained from wiki)

REFERENCES
1. The Lost River: On the Trails of Saraswati by Michel Danino, Published 2010 by Penguin Books India.
2. General Studies: For Civil Services Preliminary Examination Paper-1, Tata McGraw-Hill Education, 2012

1800 BC
1701 BC

THE CODE OF HAMMURABI

ed to be reared in public view. This stone was found in the year 1901 by Egyptologist Gustave Jquier, not in Babylon, but in a city of th

Stone where code is written (Image obtained from wik

(Zoomed view)

FERENCES
Babylonia LawThe Code of Hammurabi, By the Rev.Claude Hermann Walter Johns,M.A. Litt.D. from the Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, 1910-19
The code of Hammurabi by Charles F. Horne translated by L.W.King (Republished in 2007 by forgotten books).