Artifact · Authenticated · National Museum of India, New Delhi (museum location; found at Mohenjo-daro, Pakistan)
Pashupati seal
A three-faced figure ringed by animals on Indus seal 420. Sir John Marshall saw an early Shiva.
c. 2350-2000 BCE (Mature Harappan; INTERPRETATION)
If this seal really shows a proto-Shiva, a living religion would be older than we think. Do you buy it?
Photo: Aadrit28, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons