When the ancient Indus civilisation was initially unearthed, the entire sub-continent was under British rule, but its territory now straddles both Pakistan and India. We asked Professor Nayanjot Lahiri from Delhi University, a specialist on the Indus...
All culture stems from that early moment, all civil society stems from that and, in some ways, things have not changed as much as we would think - a house is still a house, the public domain or government building is still the same, a person sits on...
There are none of the rich burials which in Egypt or Mesopotamia tell us so much about the powerful, and about the society they controlled. We have to conclude that the Indus Valley people probably cremated their dead and, while there may be many ben...
When one's faced with a piece of ground where there is very limited constraints, there are not many buildings there and it's a sort of white piece of paper, the first thing you do is start putting a grid on it, because you want to own it and a grid i...
But, in historical terms, the most important of the lot is, without question, the seal that shows the cow that looks a bit like a unicorn, for it was this seal that stimulated the discovery of the entire Indus civilisation. It was discovered in the 1...
You could really say that that's where all the things that I am interested in - civil society - starts. (Richard Rogers) It speaks to me in so many different ways, and it doesn't appear to be something that is alien just because it belongs to the thi...
013 :EPISODE 13 - Indus seal 印度封印 Indus seal (made 4,000 - 4,500 years ago). Stone stamp found in the Indus Valley, Pakistan Imagine the great cities of the world gone forever. London has slowly disappeared, submerged under the swollen Tham...
The plundering of Baghdad has continued for a third day to the consternation of international aid agencies ... (BBC news report) ... at the National Museum in Baghdad we were shown where Sumarian artefacts were ripped down when it was looted just aft...
If one side of the Standard shows the ruler running a flourishing economy, the other side shows the army he needed to protect it - and that brings me back to the thought that I began with; that it seems to be a continuous historical truth - that once...
On the Standard, the scenes are arranged like three comic strips, one on top of each other. One side shows what must be any ruler's dream of how a tax system should operate. In the lower two registers, people calmly line up to offer their tribute of...