5. Education and Museum web sites
to use without you, the teacher! Professor Indus goes to Mohenjo-daro. Activities
include placing "excavated" artefacts in Museum + downloadables. The BBC added new pages in 2011, but there are some factual mistakes. The claim that the horse, camel and donkeys were animals kept by the Harappans is incorrect. Their new trading game is an info gathering exercise, not geared to promote negotiation, discussion, or question writing skills, which is the aim of our 'Indus Traders Way'
The British Museum's education website featuring its own artefacts, mostly
not on public display. Activities and plan of Mohenjo-daro.
National Fund Cultural Heritage Pakistan - Indus Jewellery
Two pages of close up photos; necklaces, beads, gold and other ornaments.
National Museum of India Delhi
A small selection of terracotta artefacts, buggy style cart, "kneading dough" woman,
and charming birdcage with birdies peeping out.
Metropolitan Museum New York "Art of the First Cities" exhibition.
Regional map of civilisation from Med. to the Indus links to themed artefacts.
Computer Graphics Reconstruction of City of Dholavira
Part of large Indus site with lots of resources, eg. how beads were manufactured
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