OK, before we talk about the fascinating demise of the Indus Valley Civilization.

好的，在我们谈论印度河流域文明迷人的消亡之前。

Instead, sometime around 1750 BCE, the Indus Valley Civilization declined until it faded into obscurity.

相反，在公元前 1750 年左右的某个时候，印度河流域文明衰落直至消失。

We know the Indus Valley Civilization flourished a long time ago. Probably around 3000 BCE.

我们知道，印度河流域文明 在很久以前就繁荣了。 大概在公元前3000年左右。

You’ll remember that we found trade documents from the Indus Valley civilization all the way in Mesopotamia.

你会记得我们一路在美索不达米亚找到了来自印度河流域文明的贸易文件。

It's definitely a bit of a " who was first" debate between Egypt, Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley civilization over who can claim to have been the region with the first astronomers.

在埃及、美索不达米亚和印度河流域文明之间，关于谁是第一个拥有天文学家的地区，这无疑是一场“谁是第一个”的辩论。

London and Paris were fetid firetraps with none of the planning of sewage management of places 5,000 years older like Mohenjo Daro in the Indus Valley Civilization, let alone Rome.

伦敦和巴黎是臭气熏天的陷阱，没有像印度河流域文明中的摩亨佐达罗这样 5000 年前的地方的污水管理规划，更不用说罗马了。

Their cultural connections extended far beyond  Mesopotamia – especially to the Indus Valley Civilization. One of the earliest civilizations  in human history, the Indus Valley Civilization stretched from northeast Afghanistan to  most of Pakistan and northwestern India.

他们的文化联系远远超出了美索不达米亚——尤其是印度河流域文明。作为人类历史上最早的文明之一，印度河流域文明从阿富汗东北部延伸到巴基斯坦大部分地区和印度西北部。

Everything we know about the Indus Valley Civilization comes from archaeology, because while they did use written language, we don’t know how to read it, and no Rosetta Stone has thus appeared to help us learn it.

我们所知道的关于印度河文明的一切都来自考古学，因为虽然他们使用书面语言， 但我们不知道如何阅读， 因此没有罗塞塔石碑帮助我们学习它。