The Harappan Civilization

Everyone would know about the Harappan Civilization. Though some say that was the beginning of an ancient culture, I would prefer to say that it was ending of a culture that we see today. Remains that we could obtain from Harappan civilization suggest that such a civilization was present in such a nature since quite a long time. I would like to highlight just one point - Harappan civilization didn't have an army !!!!! Interesting; right ? You look at any ancient civilizations as Egyptians and you come across many remains of war craft . They had maintained an army either for their self-defense or to attack others as part of expanding their boundaries. But one cannot find anything related to warfare in Harappan sites. That means one and only one thing - people in Harappa didn't want war; they neither attacked anyone nor were afraid of being attacked by some one - very peace loving people.

When two civilizations are in contact, you are ought to see some kind of exchange between them. But in the case of Harappan civilization, it's quite different.  We see artifacts from Harappan civilization in another parts of the contemporary civilizations. For eg: Mesopotamia, Iran, Magan( possibly today's Oman), Dilum ( possibly encompassed of present day  Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and the coastal regions of the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia ). But we don't find any of their artifacts in Harappa. How is that possible ? Could it be for some perishable items that we exchanged our artifacts with them ?