Indus
c. 3300 – 1300 BCE
The Harappan cities, their seals and script, and the world before the Vedas.
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- Indus Valley Civilization: Hindu perspectivesIndus Valley Civilization: Hindu perspectives surveys the interpretive tradition, both schola…
- Pashupati sealThe Pashupati seal is a steatite seal from Mohenjo-daro, ancient India (modern-day Pakistan),…
- Sarasvati river debateThe Sarasvati debate concerns whether the river praised in the Rigveda is the now-dry Ghaggar…
- SwastikaThe swastika is an equilateral hooked cross, one of the oldest continuously used symbols in h…
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- The Aryan questionThe Aryan question concerns how Indo-Aryan languages came to be spoken in South Asia, and is…
- BanawaliBanawali is an Indus site in Haryana with occupation running from the pre-Harappan through th…
- Cemetery H cultureThe Cemetery H culture is the late and post-urban phase in the Punjab, named for a burial gro…
- ChanhudaroChanhudaro is an Indus site in Sindh, ancient India (modern-day Pakistan), excavated in the 1…
- Dancing GirlThe Dancing Girl is a small bronze figurine from Mohenjo-daro, ancient India (modern-day Paki…
- Decline of the Indus citiesThe Indus cities were progressively abandoned in the early second millennium BCE, in a proces…
- DholaviraDholavira is an Indus city on an island in the Rann of Kutch, remarkable for its water-harves…
- GanweriwalaGanweriwala is a large Indus site in the Cholistan desert of the Punjab, ancient India (moder…
- Great BathThe Great Bath is a large watertight tank on the citadel mound at Mohenjo-daro, ancient India…
- HarappaHarappa is the Indus site in the Punjab, ancient India (modern-day Pakistan), that gave the c…
- Indus city planningIndus cities were laid out on a broadly regular plan with oriented streets, standardised bric…
- Indus craft and beadworkIndus craft production included carnelian, steatite and faience beads, shell bangles, copper…
- Indus scriptThe Indus script is the writing system of the Indus civilization, surviving in several thousa…
- Indus sealsIndus seals are small carved squares of steatite bearing an animal, an inscription and a boss…
- Indus terracotta figurinesTerracotta figurines are the commonest human and animal images from the Indus civilization, f…
- Indus trade with MesopotamiaThe Indus civilization traded with Mesopotamia by sea and land, and is generally identified w…
- Indus Valley CivilizationThe Indus Valley Civilization (IVC), also called the Harappan Civilization, was a Bronze Age…
- Indus Valley Civilization: Hindu perspectivesIndus Valley Civilization: Hindu perspectives surveys the interpretive tradition, both schola…
- Indus water and drainageThe Indus cities were served by wells, bathing platforms and covered street drains on a scale…
- Indus weights and measuresThe Indus civilization used a standardised system of cubical stone weights following a binary…
- KalibanganKalibangan is an Indus site in Rajasthan on the dry bed of the Ghaggar, notable for a ploughe…
- LothalLothal is an Indus site in Gujarat, excavated in the 1950s, containing a large brick basin wi…
- MehrgarhMehrgarh is a Neolithic settlement in Balochistan, ancient India (modern-day Pakistan), occup…
- Mohenjo-daroMohenjo-daro is the largest known city of the Indus civilization, on the right bank of the In…
- Ochre Coloured PotteryOchre Coloured Pottery is a Chalcolithic ware of the Ganges-Yamuna Doab, dated to roughly the…
- Pashupati sealThe Pashupati seal is a steatite seal from Mohenjo-daro, ancient India (modern-day Pakistan),…
- Priest-KingThe Priest-King is a small steatite bust from Mohenjo-daro, ancient India (modern-day Pakista…
- RakhigarhiRakhigarhi in Haryana is among the largest Indus sites, and the source of the first ancient g…
- Sarasvati river debateThe Sarasvati debate concerns whether the river praised in the Rigveda is the now-dry Ghaggar…
- SurkotadaSurkotada is a small fortified Indus site in Kutch, best known for horse bones whose identifi…