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| | The Sunday Tribune - Spectrum - Article |
 | | Stuart Piggott focused on Europe, while Sir Ernest Mackay worked in Egypt and later in southwest Asia. |
 | | They asserted that the Indus civilisation originated as a result of outside Mesopotamian influence, and was centrally organised, ruled by priest-kings who lived in urban citadels and maintained rigid cultural uniformity, propagated animal worship and, perhaps, Brahmanism. |
 | | Wheeler and Piggott further claimed that this civilisation was conquered by invading Indo-Aryan armies, which, through time, were culturally and biologically corrupted by indigenous populations into adopting practices such as caste, Brahmanism, Hinduism et al. |
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