Showing posts with label silk harappa chanu-daru pakisan china harappan Indus civilization river valley moths. Show all posts
Showing posts with label silk harappa chanu-daru pakisan china harappan Indus civilization river valley moths. Show all posts

Thursday, 19 February 2009

Origins of silk

Strand of silk, dating back to about 2000BC have been discovered in Harappa and Chanu-daru in Pakistan,this is only a hundred years younger than finds in china.

The harappan finds appeared to have been reeled.

Silk comes from moths.