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Featured image: Top right: The remnants of a 4,000-year-old copper crown found on a skull from the late Indus Valley civilization period found at village of Chandayan, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Background: Earthen pots found at a burial site from the late Indus Valley civilization period in the village of Chandayan, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. (A.K. Pandey/Archaeological Survey of India)

A copper crown in a grave.

Chandayan, India. about 4,000 years old. First cities. Debated. Free

A sure crown was not found.

Debated. The copper piece may have been a crown, or only something worn on the head.

In the village of Chandayan, in Uttar Pradesh in northern India, a copper headpiece was found in a grave from the late Indus time. The page says it is about 4,000 years old. It was decorated with a carnelian and another precious bead. Clay pots were found with it. The page says this is only the second find of this kind at an Indus place in India or Pakistan. A silver one was found earlier in the Fatehabad district of Haryana. About 150 feet away, researchers also found a place where people lived at the same time, with a firm floor, mud walls, and holes for fence posts. The page says that is the first late Indus living place found so far to the east.

People still argue about whether the copper piece was a crown, and whether it belonged to a ruler.

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