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.

According to the author, The Archaeology and Epigraphy of Indus Writing is a detailed examination of the Indus script.

This is an exceptional book, from its high production value to well marshaled arguments and the broad perspective of its author, R. Balakrishnan. He has been researching the materials for decades in a careful and constructive manner. It is also a tribute to the late Iravatham Mahadevan, one of my favorite people in ancient Indus studies and India's most accomplished Indus script scholar.

An eminent American expert on Afghanistan collected numerous essays on paleolithic, chalcolithic and early Iron Age Afghanistan, showing the extent of human cultures in the area dating back tens of thousands of years.