Considering how ancient and sophisticated the Indus Valley Civilisation (IVC) was known to be, it is frustrating that we know so little about them. Researchers still struggle to understand the Indus script, for want of a Rosetta Stone that could give us a frame of reference.
But buried deep within Kerala’s Wayanad hills, almost 2000 kilometres from the site of the IVC, inscriptions within the Edakkal caves suggest the Harappans may have reached further South than earlier thought.
Could cavemen from the first millennium B.C. in Kerala have known more than we do?
The discovery
The man who rediscovered the caves after thousands of years was not an archaeologist, but a cop! Fred Fawcett was a Superintendent of Police on holiday in the Wayanad hills – there on the invitation of Colin Mackenzie. A local planter drew his attention when he spoke of engravings on a cave. It turned out to be a giant fissure in the side of the Ambakathy hills.
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