The Indus Inscriptions Fewer inscriptions are found on clay tablets, pottery and metal objects. With an average of just 4 or 5 signs, the brevity of most inscriptions poses a challenge for decipherment efforts. It’s also among the reasons that some scholars argue these characters are not true writing.

A: We don’t know much about Harappan civilization because historians cannot read their language. A: The Vedas are important to historians because they are a major source of information about the Aryans.

Why don’t we have more information about the Indus Valley civilization? Only one ancient city in the Indus Valley has been discovered and explored. Archaeologists and historians have been unable to decipher the Indus Valley writing. The ancient people of the Indus Valley purposely obscured evidence of their existence.

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Despite going extinct over 400 million years ago, ancient comb jellies are still blowing scientists away. Long thought of as entirely soft-bodied creatures — like their modern counterparts — these predatory marine animals may have had hard, skeleton-like parts, according to a study published in Science Advances today.

Comb jellies aren’t harmful to humans, but they wreak havoc on the local ecosystem. In the Adriatic Sea, they don’t have any predators yet. The rapidly reproducing comb jellies deplete supplies of plankton, as well as the eggs and larvae of fish like anchovies.

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You can eat jellyfish in many ways, including shredded or sliced thinly and tossed with sugar, soy sauce, oil, and vinegar for a salad. It can also be cut into noodles, boiled, and served mixed with vegetables or meat. Prepared jellyfish has a delicate flavor and surprisingly crunchy texture.

The tentacles contain stinging nematocysts, microscopic capsules loaded with coiled, barbed tubes that deliver venom capable of paralyzing and killing small fish and crustaceans. While the man o’ war’s sting is rarely deadly to people, it packs a painful punch and causes welts on exposed skin.

Bats are eaten by people in parts of some Asian, African, Pacific Rim countries and cultures, including Vietnam, Seychelles, Philippines, Indonesia, Palau, Thailand, China, and Guam. In Guam, Mariana fruit bats (Pteropus mariannus) are considered a delicacy.