Glimpses of India and Pakistan before 1947 and the story of the ancient Indus Valley. Old photographs, rare film footage and long unseen media from before independence in India and Pakistan.

The world's top scholars on the undeciphered ancient Indus Valley script tell us what they think.

Article about the pan-Indian god Skanda or Murugan and his occurrence in the Indus Valley script.

Archaeology in Pakistan Return to Mango Grove | Buddhist Sites in Pakistan Harappa: Main | Excavations | Mound ET | Mound AB | Walks in the Countryside Harappa Town | Surrounding Villages The Archaeology pages of this site focus on two sites of the Indus Valley Civilization - Mohenjo Daro and Harappa. Most focus on Harappa, where I had the pleasure of excavating. Harappa Pages: Pictures from ...

At a Glance... HISTORY & POLITICS Indus Valley Kautilya and Arthashastra MUGHAL INDIA BRITISH INDIA GANDHI SOCIAL AND POLITICAL MOVEMENTS INDEPENDENT INDIA Indus Valley Civilization. The earliest traces of civilization in the Indian subcontinent are to be found in places along, or close, to the Indus river . Excavations first conducted in 1921-22, in the ancient cities of Harappa and Mohenjodaro ...

Harappa And Tamil Culture Harappa And Tamil Culture Origin of Iron Culture Pre-Iron Age Similarities | Books | Culture | Education | Industry | Literature | Organisations | Movies | Politics | History | | Technology | | Home | Copyright INTAMM. 1997. All rights reserved. No part of this web site should be copied, printed in any mean without prior permission. Please go through the terms and ...

International conference on Revisiting Indus-sarasvati Age & Ancient India Atlanta (Georgia, USA), October 4-6, 1996 The three-day international conference on the theme of 'Revisiting Indus-sarasvati Age and Ancient India' was organized by the Greater Atlanta Vedic Temple Society and Hindu University of America. The Conference, attended by scholars and Vedic researchers from several countries, ...

Volume 17 - Issue 23, Nov. 11 - 24, 2000 India's National Magazine from the publishers of THE HINDU Table of Contents CONTROVERSY Questionable agendas and assertions Some assertions made at a gallery on the Harappan civilisation, inaugurated recently at the National Museum in Delhi, generate a debate among scholars. SUKUMAR MURALIDHARAN in New Delhi EVERY form of political allegiance exerts its ...

Volume 17 - Issue 23, Nov. 11 - 24, 2000 India's National Magazine from the publishers of THE HINDU Table of Contents SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION New Evidence on the 'Piltdown Horse' Hoax Michael Witzel and Steve Farmer are the scholarly authors of the Cover Story, Horseplay in Harappa, in Frontline (October 13, 2000). Michael Witzel is Wales Professor of Sanskrit at Harvard University and the ...

Volume 17 - Issue 23, Nov. 11 - 24, 2000 India's National Magazine from the publishers of THE HINDU Table of Contents SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION Of Rajaram's 'Horses', 'decipherment', and civilisational issues Asko Parpola is Professor of Indology at the Department of Asian and African Studies at the University of Helsinki. He is one of the world's leading authorities on the Indus Civilisation and ...

Volume 17 - Issue 23, Nov. 11 - 24, 2000 India's National Magazine from the publishers of THE HINDU Table of Contents SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION One sees what one wants to Iravatham Mahadevan is the leading Indian expert on the Indus Valley script and one of the world's foremost scholars in the field. His computer-aided study, The Indus Valley Script: Texts, Concordances and Tables (Memoirs of the ...

Week 16: Indus Valley (Harappan) Civilization I. History of Rediscovery of the Indus Valley Civiliza- tion A. Indus Civilization collapsed before the composition of the hymns collected in the Rigveda, the oldest historical document of India (1200 B.C.). B. Several seals discovered and published in mid & late 19th century from Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa: script clearly not Indian. C. In the years ...

The Indus Valley Civilisation Settlements Urban Development Occupations Society and Religion Settlements From the beginning of the 4th millennium BC, the individuality of the early village cultures began to be replaced by a more homogenous style of existence. By the middle of the 3rd millennium, a uniform culture had developed at settlements spread across nearly 500, 000 square miles, including ...

Discovery of sherds at Harappa confirm dates for discoveries of Early Indus script on pottery and in the impression of a square seal on a lump of clay.

Volume 17 - Issue 20, Sep. 30 - Oct. 13, 2000 India's National Magazine from the publishers of THE HINDU Table of Contents COVER STORY HORSEPLAY IN HARAPPA The Indus Valley Decipherment Hoax MICHAEL WITZEL, a Harvard University Indologist, and STEVE FARMER, a comparative historian, report on media hype, faked data, and Hindutva propaganda in recent claims that the Indus Valley script has been ...

K.K.RAMAN -Epigraphist from Pathanamthitta Indus Seal Raman of Elavumthitta who can decipher Indus Seals ...

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Banawali Mound also called Vanawali - district Fatehbad or Fatehabad - Haryana - Archaeological Site, Rangoi Nala, Harappan civilization ...

Gujarat & Indus Valley Civilization Indus Valley Civilization was one of the worlds first great civilization. It is also known as Harapan civilization. In Gujarat Rangpur in Limdi Taluka of Ahmedabad district was the first site which was re-exacavated after independence as it was suspected to be a Harappan outpost. Rangpur represented a late phase of the mature Harappan culture. Further surveys ...