A multinational team of scientists has sequenced the first genome of an individual from the Harappan Civilization. The genome, which belongs to a woman who lived 4,000-5,000 years ago, suggests that modern people in India are likely to be largely descended from people of this ancient civilization. It also offers an insight into how farming began in South Asia, showing that it was not brought by large-scale movement of people from the Fertile Crescent...
