Archeologists Discover Pakistan’s 7,200-Year-Old Cotton in Israel

Archeologists have unearthed 7,200-year-old cotton remnants from Pakistan’s Indus Valley civilization in a small ancient village in Israel.

Cotton, which was considered a luxury at the time, was discovered in a deserted Israeli village called Tel Tsaf, which has many ancient ruins dating back 7,300 years.

Several archeologists from Stanford University, the University of Arkansas, and the University of Haifa, as well as from a German museum, have stated in their study that ancient cotton traveled all this distance from prehistoric Pakistan to an Israeli village through trading.

One of the study’s authors, Danny Rosenberg of the University of Haifa, stated that the reason they believe cotton is not local is that it only grows in tropical or subtropical environments with plenty of water.

He further noted, “the cultivation of cotton arose independently around the world, including in the Indus Valley and North Africa. However, cultivation in North Africa was later.”

Moreover, the study indicates that the earliest archaeological evidence of cotton’s use exists in Balochistan’s Mehrgarh, where it was used around 7,500 to 8,500 years ago.

However, it is worth noting that the oldest known cotton fabric is a little piece of real cloth, glued to a silver vase, in Indus Valley, which was discovered between 4,750 and 5,000 years ago in Mohenjo-Daro in Sindh.

In this regard, Rosenberg stated that these details and historical evidence suggest that cotton, which has been found in Israel, is from prehistoric Pakistan.

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  • Isreal is the name given to them by God Himself. So we like Israel or deny Isreal its there till the time world ends. Aside from Isreal by the way how honest we are with our own country really matters which is at the verge of financial devastation due to extreme corruption and loot

    • Uhhh it says prehistoric pakistan and even if it only said pakistan doesn’t mean the country pakistan rather the area pakistan possess and same goes with israel that the place in israel has the cotton of years ago. Basically you can’t just know what the place was called 6000 yrs ago so you just take the name of the current country/city that possess that land/area/place

  • It was India and palestine when muslims were ruling in both parts of Islamic state. There was and is no Israel and was no Pakistan.

    • Although there was no Pakistan that time but you forgot to realise that we’re talking about these things in todays world so we’d rather use the names of the region in today’s world’s term rather than calling them what they were called years ago (which is pretty stupid) and also the fact that Hindustan was a large country so calling it that would just make the story go in different direction. Moreover, they should’ve just mentioned ‘Sind’ or Indus civilization to be more precise

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