00:00Before the pyramids sliced the desert sky, before Rome's marble streets shone in the sun,
00:04there was a land shaped not by kings, but by the rhythm of water.
00:09In what is now Pakistan and northwest India, five great rivers once wandered freely,
00:14the Indus, the Ravi, the Bees, the Sutlej, the Chinab.
00:19Every year, they rose and spilled over their banks, bringing both life and destruction.
00:24They carved the soil, shifted their paths, and carried entire civilizations in their flow.
00:31Here, human hands molded the mud of those floods into the first cities of South Asia.
00:36Here, farmers learned to wait for the river's gifts and fear its fury.
00:42This is the story of the Indus, of how its floods built a civilization, and how those same waters swept
00:48it away.
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