20 slideshows with nearly 1,000 slides by leading scholars of the ancient Indus Civilization (3500-1700 BCE)
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Tour the ancient Indus Civilization with one of its foremost scholars and recent excavators, Jonathan Mark Kenoyer. Stunning slides from Harappa and Mohenjo-... |
The Latest Discoveries at Harappa 1995-1998 include the earliest Indus writing, a 133 bead pot, 16 tablets, and more.
By Richard H. Meadow and Jonathan Mark... |
Mohenjo Daro, or "Mound of the Dead" is an ancient Indus Valley Civilization city that flourished between 2600 and 1900 BCE. The site was discovered in the... |
A hitherto unknown box of 63 images in Sir Mortimer Wheeler's personal collection from excavations he led at Mohenjo-daro in 1950. With new captions by... |
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Gola Dhoro, also known as the village of Bagasra on the Gulf of Kutch in Gujarat was recently discovered by a group of Indian archaeologists. This tiny mound... |
Terracotta Figurines from Harappa in 72 slides. A look at the many types of female, male and other figurines and what they may tell us of Indus people.
By... |
The Circular Platforms and so-called Granary at Harappa, two puzzling structures. By Richard H. Meadow and Jonathan Mark Kenoyer. |
Photographs from Sir John Marshall's classic book Mohenjo-daro and the Indus Civilization (1931) covering the very first excavations at this ancient Indus... |
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The Early City on Mound E, a Bead and Tablet Workshop and the City Walls on Mound E. By Jonathan Mark Kenoyer and Richard H. Meadow. |
The mounds of ancient Harappa, 200 kilometers south of Lahore, today. Includes the so-called granary (Mound F), workingmen's platforms, large drains (Mound AB... |
Lothal is an ancient Indus site in Gujarat on the Gulf of Combay where trade once flourished with other ancient civilizations. |
Kodachrome slides from 1962 include the Great Bath, the Stupa Mound, and the narrow deserted streets of this four-and-a-half thousand year old city in Larkana... |
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New light on the recently named Ravi Phase (3300-2800 BCE), the Kot Diji Phase (2800-2600 BCE), and the Harappa Phase (2600-1800 BCE).
By Richard H. Meadow and... |
Excavations in Balochistan resulted in new evidence from surrounding and earlier cultures to the ancient Indus tradition.
By Ute Franke-Vogt. |
Almost all known human sites from 100,000 to 3000 BCE in South Asia could fit into the Rohri flint quarries, so large was this enterprise.
By Paolo Biagi. |
"The (Harappan) animal seals are among the world's greatest examples of an artist's ability to embody the essentials of a given form in artistic shape." (B.... |
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A computer visualization of the ancient Indus Valley city of Harappa in based on M.S. Vat's excavations at the site in the late 1920s. By Wayne Belcher. Based... |
Ethnoarchaeological research on fisheries that appeared to have similar levels of technology present during the Indus Valley tradition.
By William R. Belcher. |
British explorers and archaeologists began the process of rediscovering Harappa in the 19th century. Charles Masson was the first to write about this, and... |
A private collection of images of one of the original excavators of Mohenjo-daro. Rao Bahadur Kashinath Narayan Dikshit (1889 – 1944), Director General of the... |



















