Videos on Mohenjo-daro in the ancient Indus Valley Civilization.
Walking tour of Mohenjo-daro in 2013. High Quality footage, some captions, no commentary, very useful for education purposes - to introduce the site, and promote discussion of its key features and buildings. Includes the Museum & shows damage done by erosion.
The talented filmmaker Saqib Mausoof's work on Mohenjo-daro integrates the ancient into lived experience from individual viewpoints of a range of people inspired by Mohenjodaro, ideas about it, and its iconic artifacts; Mohenjo-daro ought to be far better known, and conserved and it can mean many things to us.
A well-done National Geographic piece introducing the ancient city with excellent aerial views and the compelling factoid that Mohenjo-daro's size was 5x that of Vatican city.
The keynote talk at the January 2020 Conference on the Indus Script at Mohenjo-daro covers larger themes on the Indus Valley civilization, the latest research and promising avenues of exploration by a variety of scholars present.
Dr. Jonathan Mark Kenoyer compares three ancient Indus urban centers in the 3rd millennium BCE. An expansive, illustrated look at Indus civilization and its many threads from Mehrgarh in 7000 BCE on, with a focus on domestication, indigenous populations and trade networks.
The author of Finding Forgotten Histories How the Indus Civilization was Discovered tells the story of the earliest investigators and discoveries that led to Harappa and Mohenjo-daro being recognized as remants of a large Bronze Age Civilization that we now know stretched over much of the north-western subcontinent.
Drs. Dennis Frenez and Massimo Vidale, two leading Indus scholars discuss the layout and features in Mohenjo-daro, including the so-called "Little Great Bath" and Indus water symbolism. Interesting conjectures around, for example, structures around trees in the city, as well as some of the more interesting houses in the city's HR-A area, including Marshall's House VIII that suggests some houses endured, with changes, for centuries. Were each of the mounds built with separate citadels? Could different groups have been in power at different times, instead of single kings ruling?
Michael Wood's BBC Documentary series on the history of India, blocked to UK viewers for copyright reasons, however viewable elsewhere in the world.
A lecture on the brilliance behind Indus architecture and civil engineering, with a focus on Dholavira. Michel Danino is an advocate of the Vedic origins of the Indus Civilisation.
A short documentary of Indian history from the civilisations of Mohenjo Daro and Harappa through the ages until Islamic Imperialism. Featured historians include Sunil Kumar, Dr Vivek Nanda of UCL, Dr David Hardiman of Warwick University.
