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[Little Rik]

Gen.
I wish you do a bit more researches before you come down with your judgements.
A rudimental or simple mortar was uses by the Egyptian (as far as we know) 4000 years ago for the first time.
After that the Roman developed a bit more sophisticate type of mortar and these days we got even more sophisticate types of mortar and cement that allow the construction of toll buildings.
Before that time people had to build with mud and straws which they turned into some sort of bricks but these bricks have little to do with the modern bricks which last for ages and ages.
From this simple facts it is obvious that in Varanasi the researchers couldn't find much evidence of buildings dating earlier than 4000 years as these mud&straws construction could not last so long.
But again if you can find some sort of evidence that prove that before 4000 years ago in that area people had knowledge of mortar&cement i will be happy to hear.

There you go:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohenjo-dar...excavation

Mohenjo-daro has a planned layout based on a street grid of rectilinear buildings. Most were built of fired and mortared brick; some incorporated sun-dried mud-brick and wooden superstructures.

The city was built over 4500 years ago, it did not use "mud and straws" as you suggest and it left plenty of evidence of its existence. Besides architecture, there are a ton of other artifacts which also provide

Clearly, it is possible for a settlement older than 4000 years to leave massive amounts of evidence for its existence. If your hypothetical yoga-practicing, shiva-worshiping, older than 4000 years settlement had existed at Varanasi, then we'd have seen architectural evidence (buildings made of wood and stone), artifacts (stone or metal statues), farm tools, weaponry, domesticated animal bones, well - atleast some evidence of that settlement. There is none.

It seems that you are running a bit too fast with your fantasy.
Where you got the idea that what was used 2000 km. away was also used in Varanasi.
4500 years ago they didn't have internet, trains, buses, cars or other way to communicate except moving by donkeys.
2000 km. in those times would translate like going further than the moon these days.
The knowledge to make mortared brick was not available in eastern India otherwise there would be evidence in other places around Varanasi.
So keep on searching Gen that maybe one day you may come up with better results.
By the way your statement that in Mohenjo-daro mud bricks were not used in incorrect.
As you can read in the article it say that ...........Most were built of fired and mortared brick; some incorporated sun-dried mud-brick and wooden superstructures.
.....how did you work out that the mud bricks were just mud without straws?
Here some more evidence.
http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-hist...discovered