Harappa - The Ancient Indus Civilization

you live within us mohenjodaro’s girl We enjoy highlighting artistic contributions that build upon ancient Indus themes and artifacts, most recently in bring Faiz Ahmad Faiz's poem The Unicorn and the Dancing Girl to our audience.

An Indus Concordance and Tamil Potsherds, Now Online For nearly fifty years one the more useful object in Indus script studies has been a book almost nobody could get hold of: Iravatham Mahadevan's The Indus Script: Texts, Concordance and Tables (1977, Me…

The Unicorn and the Dancing Girl During a recent online discussion, Salima Hashmi, daughter of the great Pakistani poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz, mentioned that he had written a single English poem, The Unicorn and the Dancing Girl.

Richard Meadow (1946-2026) It is with real sadness that I report the passing away of Dr.

Sunset at Mohenjo-daro The sun sets on the Stupa Mound at Mohenjo-daro in early 2026 [Image 1].

Mohenjo-daro Movie at Two Indian Film Festivals Mohenjo-daro: Unsealing an Ancient Indus City has been selected for two upcoming film fests in India, the 15th Bangalore Shorts Film Fest, where it will be shown on June 21st, 2026.

A Visit to the Metropolitan's Indus Collection II A decade after writing about a visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York's small Indus collection, I returned to find a number of new objects on display and others removed from view (see the first

Mohenjo-daro in the 1960s You could walk through the Great Bath, women wore saris, and in Karachi and Bombay, people were listening to the Beatles Yesterday on Radio Ceylon.

An Archaeological Site in the AI Jungle What are the AI platforms doing to websites like Harappa.com which have been around since the dawn of the Internet?

Our First Film: Mohenjo-daro: Unsealing an Ancient Indus City NEW MOVIE RELEASED I'm thrilled to share that my documentary, Mohenjo-daro: Unsealing an Ancient Indus City, is finally live on YouTube: https://youtu.be/BxyxVgAMM_4 The 37-minute film follows…

Before Mohenjo-daro: New Light on the Beginnings of the Indus Valley Civilisation, from Recent Excavations at Kot Diji The recent evidence from Mohenjo-daro of a "Kot Dijian" layer beneath its Indus ruins, including the city wall, dating from 2600 BCE or…