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World Service,3 mins

A lost civilisation revealed by 5,000-year-old weights

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Matt Kimberly, curator of the London Science Museum’s new exhibition "Illuminating India", explains the incredible significance of a set of stone weights from the Indus Valley civilisation, one of the earliest civilisations in the world. (Photo: Polished stone weights. Credit: Science Museum Group)

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