A Peaceful Realm
An outstandingly vivid recreation of one of the world's great yet all-but-lost ancient civilizations.
126 new and classic books on the ancient Indus civilization, from exhibition catalogues to excavation reports, from the scientific to imaginative fiction for kids and adults.
Indus Valley Teaching Kit
A Teaching Kit with a Large Wall Poster, set of 16 colour photocards, and teachers booklet with suggested activities. Very well produced.
The Indus Civilization: A Contemporary Perspective
The author, the late Gregory Possehl, was one of the world's leading experts on the ancient Indus Valley. This recently published book is a summary of his extensive volumes summarizing ancient Indus archaeology and research.
Trading Encounters
A revised edition of Shereen Ratnagar's Encounters: The Westerly Trade of the Harappa Civilization. The book explores the scope of the trading contacts of the centres that fell within the "Indus Valley" civilizations.
End of the Great Harappan Tradition
This fascinating book suggests alternatives to the 'environmental catastrophe' theories of Harappan civilizational collapse, with a discussion about the nature of the Harappan state and what its weaknesses might have been. The civilization is placed in a wider geographic setting to explore not just the internal factors but also those operating within the Bronze Age at large.
Forgotten Cities on the Indus
Early civilization in Pakistan from the 8th to the 2nd millenium B.C. Beautifully illustrated with essays by a number of prominent European scholars.
The Indus Valley (History Opens Windows)
Good quality well-researched paperback in the History Open Windows Series by a respected education writer introduces ancient Indus Valley to the 7 - 11 age group.
The Rise of Civilization in India and Pakistan
The standard comprehensive text incorporating findings through its publication date and relating them to the author's wide and deep understanding of contemporary ancient cultures.
The Indus Civilization
This Supplemental Volume to the Cambridge History of India is an outdated (1968) but rigorously argued synthesis by a pioneering British archaeologist. With some nicely done plans and cross-sections.
Sarang and Jeevai
A coloring book story about a boy from Harappa and a girl from Mohenjo-daro by Dr. Jonathan Mark Kenoyer. Based on the latest findings about the ancient Indus Valley civilization.
The Indus Age: The Writing System
The first of a four volume study by the senior American Indus scholar, covering the history of attempts to decipher the script. A very thorough history by an author highly sceptical of all attempts so far and an incredibly valuable overview for anyone seriously into the script.
The Indus Valley
Provides an introduction to the Harappa people who lived in the Indus Valley thousands of years ago, describing their civilization, daily life, religious beliefs, and more.
The Indus Script: Texts, Concordance and Tables
The first real collection of Indus signs upon which attempts at decipherments could start to be made.
Excavations at Harappa
Being an Account of Archaeological Excavations at Harappa carried out between the Years 1920-1921 and 1933-34
Results from early excavations at Harappa.
Ancient Cholistan Art and Architecture
Pakistan's leading Indus scholar reports on his ground-breaking research in ancient Cholistan, along the dry Hakra or Sarasvati river. Full of splendid photographs.
The Decline and Fall of the Indus Civilization
Essays by leading specialists that outline the issues, hypotheses, and questions raised over the last decades. The editor presents a lengthy introduction that outlines the history, developments and complexities of the Indus Civilization.
Mohenjo-daro and the Indus Civilization
Facsimile re-print of the first, essential excavations report at this key Indus city. Three volumes, fold out maps, plans, diagrams scale drawings of artifacts with 164 plates.
From Sumer to Meluhha
From Sumer to Meluha Contributions to the Archaeology of West and South Asia in Memory of George F. Dales, Jr. New ideas by established and young scholars in honor of an American pioneer in Indus archaeology.
Ancient Indus Valley Cart Kit
A step-by-step guide to making an ancient Indus Valley 'toy' cart from clay. With a dozen related classroom activities and teacher's notes, templates and modelling instructions, numerous artefact illustrations and diagrams.
The CD includes film clips of activities.
South Asian Archaeology 1989
Papers from the 10th International Conference of South Asian Archaeologists in Western Europe. Many articles relate to the Indus Valley.