Teaching Resources     5. Education and Museum web sites


BBC Indus Valley Website for children

to use without you, the teacher! Professor Indus goes to Mohenjo-daro. Activities
include placing "excavated" artefacts in Museum + downloadables.

Ancient India

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 from Med. to the Indus links to themed artefacts from contemporary civilisations. Click 'Indus' to see good photo of Carnelian girdle.

Computer Graphics Reconstruction of City of Dholavira

Part of a large "Indus" site with a lot of resources, eg. how beads were
manufactured, many photos, though some are quite small.