On Thursday at 5 pm California time, my documentary on Mohenjo-daro will be showing followed by a discussion moderated by Dr. Munis Faruqui at the University of California, Berkeley. The event will also be live streamed. >

We enjoy highlighting artistic contributions that build upon ancient Indus themes and artifacts. This poem is by Sehba Sarwar, an award-winning poet, novelist and activist from Pakistan living in Los Angeles, inspired by the four thousand year old figurine. >

For nearly fifty years one the more useful object in Indus script studies has been a book almost nobody could get hold of: Iravatham Mahadevan's The Indus Script: Texts, Concordance and Tables (1977, Memoir No. 77 of the Archaeological Survey of India). It is the reference many researchers work from. >

It is with real sadness that I report the passing away of Dr. Richard H. Meadow, Director of the Zooarcheaology Laboratory at the Peabody Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology at Harvard University. He was also one of the key contributors to Harappa.com – in fact it was an email from him in 1995 that set me down the road to building Harappa.com as a website that ultimately became fully dedicated to the ancient Indus civilization. >

The sun sets on the Stupa Mound at Mohenjo-daro in early 2026 [Image 1]. The so-called "Divinity Lane" at Mohenjo-daro [2] separates the Stupa from the Great Bath, "College" and other areas. >

Mohenjo-daro: Unsealing an Ancient Indus City has been selected for two upcoming film fests in India, the 15th Bangalore Shorts Film Fest, where it will be shown on June 21st, 2026. It has also been selected for the 9th South Asian Short Film Festival (SASFF) in Kolkata, where it will be shown on July 8th in the 1 pm slot at NANDAN – The Film Centre. >

A decade after writing about a visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York's small Indus collection, I returned to find a number of new objects on display and others removed from view. Unfortunately. the larger issue with the display had not been solved. >

You could walk through the Great Bath, women wore saris, and in Karachi and Bombay, people were listening to the Beatles Yesterday on Radio Ceylon. >

What are the AI platforms doing to websites like Harappa.com which have been around since the dawn of the Internet? Like colonial powers, they happily claim territory through extra-legal procedures (although they are said to be far more intelligent than human beings, they can't understand our terms of service which kindly asks them to not crawl!). >

The 37-minute film explores one of the world's greatest lost civilizations through the eyes the founder of Harappa.com walking the site and exploring what we know — and still don't — about one of the world's greatest lost civilizations. >

The recent evidence from Mohenjo-daro of a "Kot Dijian" layer beneath its Indus ruins, including the city wall, dating from 2600 BCE or earlier, brings renewed interest to this precursor culture to the Indus civilization. >