Bagarius Bagarius Catfish, Family Sisoridae
While this fish is common in the archaeological deposits, Wallago attu and Rita rita are the most common. However, this fish, locally known as Goonch is one of the largest catfish known in Asia.
Slides in full or partial color.
Mound AB Center Area
A closer view of a room or the side of a building on Mound AB, Harappa.
Middle Town, Dholavira
The view of middle town as seen from the eastern wall periphery. The middle and lower towns were built on the northern part of the Dholavira while the Citadel was on the south part of the Dholavira.
Ravi phase pit
Normally in archaeology pits are emptied before earlier surrounding layers are excavated.
Quarries
Around the quarries, thousands of flint artefacts were found lying on the surface. This shows that peliminary chipping of the artefacts took place on top of the mesas, or flat limestone terraces.
Painted Bowl
This painted bowl at the Guimet is from the Mundigak IV period, 2900-2400 BCE and involves some elaborate and very finely painted designs that could be an abstraction of the pipal leaf, sacred or of great reverence to Mundigak and Indus cultures.
Three female figurines with painted fan-shaped headdresses from Harappa
Many of the fan-shaped headdresses were painted black.
Indus Valley Street with Covered Drain
Indus Valley Street with covered drain on the right, Mohenjo-daro, Sindh.
Unfinished shell bangles
Unfinished shell bangles in the shell workshop, Gola Dhoro.
Trench 39 North Excavations
Excavations on Mound AB in 1998 began with the clearance of surface debris to expose the many habitation levels, beginning with natural soil in the lower foreground.