Comments by "Angry Kittens" (@AngryKittens) on "Mohenjo Daro 101 | National Geographic" video.

  1. The people who lived there are not genetically or culturally related to modern Pakistanis though. They predated the arrival of Indo-Europeans from Central Asia. They were likely to have been Dravidians (whom the Indo-Europeans drove out). Their closest modern-day descendants are perhaps the southern Indians (Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam, etc.). Though Pakistan does have a Dravidian population (the Brahui people), most anthropologists believe they resettled Pakistan from central India long after the fall of the Dravidian empires. All other major Pakistani groups (Urdu/Hindustani, Sindhi, Gujarati, etc., even the Kalash) as well as Indian groups are Indo-European (Indo-Aryan). It's similar to the Stonehenge, which was built by a culture that is now effectively extinct. Though it exists in lands now claimed by people of Celtic/Germanic descent, they are not related to the Stonehenge builders. The world of 4000 years ago is very different to the world now.
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