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Discover Meluha-When India was called Meluha.

Meluha  or  Melukhkha  is the  Sumerian  name of a prominent trading partner of  Sumer  during the  Middle Bronze Age . Its identification remains an open question, though most scholars associate it with the  Indus Valley Civilization Sumerian  texts repeatedly refer to three important centers with which they traded:  Magan ,  Dilmun , and Meluhha.  Magan  is usually identified with  Egypt  in later  Assyrian  texts; but the Sumerian localization of Magan was probably  Oman .  Dilmun  was a  Persian Gulf   civilization  which traded with Mesopotamian civilizations, the current scholarly consensus is that Dilmun encompassed  Bahrain ,  Failaka Island  and the adjacent coast of  Eastern Arabia  in the  Persian Gulf . The location of Meluhha, however, is hotly debated. There are scholars today who confidently identify Meluhha with the...