Re : Connection of Greeks with India

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Dear Kishore,

 

I would like to share with you a recent message I post to

IndiaArchaeology group related to Greeks-India conection.

 

Best regards,

 

Carlos

 

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Re: The Yavana Presence in Ancient India by Himanshu P. Ray

 

Francesco Brighenti wrote:

 

> Please provide evidence of a continuity of trade between India

> and countries to her West after the end of the Indus Valley

> civilization. In the lack of such evidence, the aforesaid

> 'assumption' remains unchallenged. Moreover, the Harappans traded

> with the Gulf and Mesopotamia, but there is no evidence that thay

> ever traded with countries situated in the eastern Mediterranean

> basin.

>

 

Dear friends,

 

To say that Harappans did not have relation with countries situated

in the Mediterranean is to be ill-informed of related findings

commented long ago by Kenoyer or Possehl.

 

The thing is that Francesco is eager to negate even what he ignores.

And on the other hand he criticizes others many times in this group

without seing his own lack of knowledge.

 

He should have read first the work:

 

Art of the First Cities: the third millennium BCE from the

Mediterranean to the Indus, 2005, Joan Aruz (ed), Yale University

Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

 

In this work we can see the case of necklaces made of flat gold and

(or) silver beads found in a wide range of territory from

MEDITERRANEAN to INDUS VALLEY, wich proves the CONTACT or at least

relation between these two regions in manufacturing THE SAME type of

jewel.

 

The work of Joan Aruz also mentions Gregory Possehl 1996 as reference:

 

" One particular bead type made of gold and silver, a flat disk with a

tubular midrib string-hole, appears to have been distributed, and

probably manufactured as well, at sites along the same routes as the

etched carnelian beads (see Fig. 72). Such beads were found at many

Indus sites, including the port of Lothal, at Altyn-depe in

Turkmenistan, at Tepe Hissar in Iran, in the Royal Cemetery at Ur, at

Eskiyapar and Troy in Anatolia, and on Aigina in the Aegean (Possehl

1996: 161-62) " (Art of the First Cities 2005: 244).

 

As everyone, with no hiden agenda, can see ESKIYAPAR AND TROY IN

ANATOLIA and AIGINA IN THE AEGEAN are in the MEDITERRANEAN.

On the other hand, these Troy beads were found by Heinrich Schleiman

much long ago!! but Francesco Brighenti, Phd in History, DID NOT

KNOW IT!!!! He did not even read Gregg!!!, as Farmer and Francesco

call Gregory Possehl trying to make believe their close relationship

with him.

 

" Gregg's " article is:

 

Possehl, Gregory L. 1996. 'Meluha', in The Indian Ocean in Antiquity,

edited by Julia Reade, pp. 133-208.

 

We can also find Art and First Cities' passages and pictures of the

necklaces at:

 

http://www.scribd.com/doc/6346256/Interconnections

(Please take a look at the first four pages and the Map at page 3)

 

Best regards,

 

Carlos

 

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