Forgotten Glorious History of India
Today we will tell you about that history that is the forgotten glorious history of India. The wells of the Indus civilization were astonishing. I have shown that in various places they were still found in working order. Today I will show how many different types of techniques were used by engineers four thousand years ago to build them.
The wells of the Indus civilization were mainly made of bricks. Terracotta fences are not seen as they are today. The Indus engineers thought of a brilliant technique to use rectangular terracotta bricks in the construction of wells as it was difficult to construct circular wells. They solved this problem by making wedged shaped bricks where one end of the brick was slightly pressed. As it was convenient to give a circular shape, the bricks stuck together firmly after being laid, then when pressed from the inside, they stuck together more solidly and so even after thousands of years we find their structure intact. If you zoom in on the well taken from Banawali in the first picture, note the size of the bricks in particular and you will understand with what strange thought they were built. The second photo is of the Kalibangan well that supplied the excavation team with water, and you can see the same type of special bricks.
The engineering marvel of constructing another such well was shown by the ancient engineers of Kalibangan. Even if wedged shaped brick was used there, it was not possible to keep its thickness high because there was another architecture next to it. Then they built four radial walls along the sides of the well to stabilize the well.
These were our ancestors.
