SUBJECTS RELATED to Indus Culture have been left out in most sociological and anthropological researches, although these are not only important from a social point of view but are related to our infrastructure growth story.
The recently discovered facts furnished the fundamental principles of our great heritage in general. The latest discoveries from 1995 to 1998 about Indus Civilization sites, writing and much more in slide shows and essays are shown in various web sites .The 1,169 illustrated pages by leading scholars around the world of the ancient Indus Culture and Civilization have mentioned their efforts in different web sites.
The greater Indus region was home to the largest of the four ancient urban civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, South Asia and China. It was not discovered until the 1920's. Most of its ruins, even its major cities, remain to be excavated. The ancient Indus Civilization script has not been converted in coded language. Many questions about the Indus people who created this highly complex culture remain unanswered, but other aspects of their society like social relationship, social values, religious ideology, infrastructural findings, economy, housing, underground hosing technology, tools and equipments etc can be answered through various types of archaeological, historical and anthropological and sociological studies.
The other important factor is city development of Indus Civilization. The Harappans used the same size bricks and standardized weights as were used in other Indus cities such as Mohenjo Daro and Dholavira. These cities were well planned with wide streets, public and private wells, drains, bathing platforms and reservoirs. One of its most well-known structures is the Great Bath of Mohenjo Daro.
There were also other highly developed cultures in adjacent regions of Baluchistan, Central Asia and peninsular India.
Material culture and the skeletons from the Harappa cemetery and other sites testify to a continual mix together of communities from both the west and the east. Harappa was a settlement before what we call the ancient Indus civilization flourished, and it remains a living town today.
Harppa.com also says the same story. Since 1986, the joint Pakistani American Harappa Archaeological Research Project (HARP) has been carrying out the first major excavations at the site since before independence in 1946. These excavations have the shown Harappa to have been far larger than once thought, perhaps supporting a population of more than 50,000 at certain periods of history. These continuing excavations are rewriting assumptions about the Indus Civilization, as is recent work by archaeologists in neighbouring India. New facts, objects and examples of writing are being discovered every year in India and Pakistan.
Almost 600 slides from HARP photographed by Dr Jonathan Mark Kenoyer [University of Wisconsin, Madison] and Richard H. Meadow (Harvard University) appear on this website, including the 90 Slide Introduction to the Ancient Indus Civilization. A detailed look at the discoveries from 1995 to 1998 at the actual site in Punjab describes the comprehensive evidence for an Early Harappan Ravi Phase dating to 3300 BCE. Another 90 slide section covers excavations in 2000 to 2001. It includes an essay on the early development of Indus arts and technologies.
Another section explores the mysterious so-called storehouse (grains) and circular platforms in Harappa. A slide section explores the mysterious so-called granary and circular platforms in Harappa. A slide section covers further evidence for the Ravi and Kot Diji phases at the site. A 72 slide series by Sharri Clark [Harvard University] looks at ancient Indus statuette discovered in Harappa. There is also a 103 introduction and image series on Mohenjo Daro, the best known ancient Indus site in Sindh, southern Pakistan.
Hundreds of slides and essays by a number of other leading scholars of the ancient Indus Civilization in India, Pakistan, Europe and America are part of this website. Many more new facts and theories is expected to be published here in the coming years, for they are only at the beginning of what are likely to be a long series of exciting future discoveries in the Indus and Saraswati river basin.
There are many other such interesting and informative facts, which are significant for more knowledge about Indus Civilization. The half-yearly magazine "History and Legacy of Indus Culture" is published from Ranchi by Editor Dhruv Tanwani for those eager to know more.
