India. Mohenjo-daro, a flourishing city in the Indus Valley, destroyed around 1900 BC and flourishing for centuries in the previous millennium, was unearthed by a British archaeological mission in 1922. No previous Indian civilization had ever noticed this evidence. Or more likely, it had never looked for it. The difference, according to evolutionist Yuval Noah Harari, is one of approach: Western civilization (an approach later adopted worldwide at the end of the 20th century) is premised on ignorance, and therefore on the drive for exploration and discovery, while most previous civilizations are premised on knowledge.
