The Indus Valley and Early Iran
An early by a pioneering Pakistani archaeologist with a Foreword by Sir Mortimer Wheeler is full of interesting plates and drawings, some of them not found elsewhere.
114 new and classic books on the ancient Indus civilization, from exhibition catalogues to excavation reports to fiction, the scientific, the interesting, the creative.
Corpus of Indus Seals and Inscriptions, Vol. 3.1
Volume 3.1 Mohenjo-daro and Harappa of the most comprehensive listing of ancient Indus seals includes new material, untraced objects, and collections outside India and Pakistan.
Indus Investigators - Mohenjodaro Mystery
Adventure story for children 8-12 to enjoy, introducing Mohenjodaro and the Indus Civilisation. Two children on a school trip to the ancient site of Mohenjodaro enter a time-warp. They become 'Indus Investigators', guided by friendly figurines and the magnificent 'unicorn', but can they really see the city as it was 4000 years ago?
Trade Winds to Meluhha
A gripping fictional work following the adventures of a young Sumerian boy as he journeys through the ancient Indus civilization.
The Ancient South Asian World
An exceptional introduction to South Asian archaeology written at the middle school level and part of the popular The World in Ancient Times series.
A History of Indian Archaeology
Dilip K. Chakrabarti, the Cambridge Indian archaeologist, describes the story and personalities, from Alexander Cunningham to John Marshall and Mortimer Wheeler with a touch of Lord Curzon. Much of the story concerns the discoveries of the ancient Indus cities of Harappa and Mohenjo-daro.
The Indus Valley (Excavating the Past)
A delightful well-illustrated children's primer on the ancient Indus. Follow in the footsteps of the archaeologists who unearthed the secrets of the Indus Valley.
Corpus of Indus Seals and Inscriptions, Vol. 2
Volume 2 of the most comprehensive listing of ancient Indus seals covers collections in Pakistan, including many seals found in Harappa and Mohenjo-daro before Independence.
Urban Form and Meaning in South Asia: The Shaping of Cities from Prehistoric to Precolonial Times
The rise and origins of urbanization in India, Pakistan and Nepal is discussed in this work by scholars in a wide range of disciplines with three important essays that deal with Indus urbanization.
Lothal: A Harappan Port Town
A key two volume text by a noted Indian archaeologist detailing the excavations at the Harappan port town of Lothal in Gujarat. Well-illustrated with maps, diagrams and hundreds of photographs.
Corpus of Indus Seals and Inscriptions, Vol. 1
Volume 1 of the most comprehensive listing of ancient Indus seals, covering those in Indian collections, many found in Mohenjo-daro and Harappa before Independence.
Studies in the Archaeology of India and Pakistan
These collected papers by leading international authorities on South Asian archaeology present material which may surprise the archaeological community and perhaps startle the educated laymen.
Studies in the Archaeology and Palaeoanthropology of South Asia
Important essays on the pre-Indus period and after, helping set the wider and still really little known context for this civilization's rise.
The External Trade of the Indus Civilization
A detailed examination of Indus artifacts, real or not, found outside the subcontinent, including in Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Iran, the Persian Gulf, Mesopotamia, Syria, Egypt, and Crete.
Harappan Civilization: A Contemporary Perspective
The second, revised edition of this magisterial work by a leading Indus scholar and synthesizer of the many theories about ancient Indus times. Numerous leading scholars are represented in the many essays.
Still Digging
The memoir of an important Indus archaeologist that recounts 45 years of archaeological work from Roman ruins in Britain to southern India.
Civilizations of the Indus Valley and Beyond
An expanded version of Sir Mortimer Wheeler's 1961 essay bringing information about the Indus civilization to the general public. Well-illustrated with reconstructions of the "granaries" as Wheeler conceived them.
Indian Nights' Entertainment or Folktales from the Upper Indus
Originally published in 1892, a collection of very old folktales from the region collected by an Englishman in the 19th century.
Harappan Civilization and Rojdi
Renewed excavations at the Harappan site of Rojdi in Rajkot District of Saurashtra were begun in 1982-83 by a joint archaeological team from the Gujarat State Department of Archaeology and The University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania.
Kulli: An Exploration of Ancient Civilization in Asia
An eminent Indus archaeologist looks at the Kulli culture, a highland culture in Baluchistan contemporaneous and adjacent to the ancient Indus civilization at its height. So little is known about this distinct culture whose hallmarks seem to have been absorbed into later Indus Civilization.