An insightful article that focusses on the clues in a seal and set of sixteen tablets found together at Harappa in 1997 to proffer that they may have been economic tokens.
A very important recent exposition of one of the most important underlying elements – used to make fire, crucial items like weights and much else – of ancient Indus civilization and its connection to, in particular the Rohri Hills.
There is a dearth of ancient Indus-based fiction in English; there are even fewer works in Hindi or Urdu. Yakoob Yawar's Dilmun is among the very few exceptions (indeed, it was the second novel ever to be set in the ancient Indus civilization, 50 years after the Hindi Murdon ka Teela by Rangeya Raghava).
Another answer to a question from you by our panel of leading Indus archaeologists.
And what exactly is steatite?
Dennys Frenez, Jonathan Mark Kenoyer, Nisha Yadav and Massimo Vidale respond.
Surely for a civilization to be so strong, it would need some sort of system of government. Yet I have heard very little evidence of a ruling party or even so much as a hierarchy or caste system within the civilization?
A clever paper looking at how far we have drifted from some of the better ancient Indus ways of living.
Massimo Vidale and Mark Kenoyer respond.
An important paper that shows how strontium isotope analysis can help reveal the interactions between and migrations of people in ancient times.
Massimo Vidale
Prof. J. M. Kenoyer, who has recently investigated the Granary at Harappa, is the best person to answer these questions.
