The Indus Valley was home to one of the world's first large civilisations. It began nearly 5,000 years ago in an area of modern-day Pakistan and Northern India.

But there's one thing that's intrigued scientists for a long time: what these people actually looked like.

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In a quest to get clues on their facial features, a group of researchers tried to closely examine some of the skeletal remains they found in a 4,500 cemetery.

For years we scientists have been studying everything from their architecture, the customs of the Indus people and their clothing and ornaments, but facial features was still an uncharted territory.

For this new experiment, study led by W J Lee and Vasant Shinde, craniofacial reconstruction (CFR) technique, using computed tomography (CT) data, was applied on two skulls from the Indus Valley Civilisation to recreate their faces reports TOI.

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The two deceased subjects examined in this study were selected from the 37 bodies that were found during an excavation project between 2013-2016, buried at the 4,500-year-old Rakhigarhi cemetery.

"The CFR technology generated faces of the two Rakhigarhi skulls, therefore, is a major breakthrough," Shinde, a professor at Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute told TOI.

The two individuals appeared to have Caucasian features with hawk-shaped and Roman noses. The study has been published in the reputed Anatomical Science International journal but researchers are not yet zeroing down on conclusions and will continue the study.