Forgotten Cities on the Indus
Author | : Michael Jansen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Excavations (Archaeology) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Michael Jansen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Excavations (Archaeology) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Nayanjot Lahiri |
Publisher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2012-08-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9350094193 |
In the autumn of 1924, the archaeologist John Marshall made an announcement that dramatically altered existing perceptions of South Asia's antiquity: the discovery of 'the civilization of the Indus valley'. Marshall's news conveyed one of the most monumental discoveries in the history of civilization, on the same scale as the findings of Heinrich Schliemann (who unearthed Troy) and Arthur Evans (who dug out Minoan Crete). The Troy and Crete stories have been well told. But a detailed, archivally rich and accessible narrative of the people, processes, places and puzzles that led up to Marshall's proclamation on the Indus civilization has, like the civilization itself, long remained buried. Now, for the first time in this book, we have the whole story, enchantingly told. Finding Forgotten Cities comprises a powerful narrative history of how India's antiquity was unexpectedly unearthed, it will interest every serious reader of history and anyone who likes to read an utterly fascinating story.
Author | : Nayanjot Lahiri |
Publisher | : Seagull Books |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
A story behind the archeological discovery that changed the history books forever.
Author | : Ilona Aronovsky |
Publisher | : Capstone |
Total Pages | : 49 |
Release | : 2016-08 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1484636449 |
Uses archeological excavations to find out about the civilization of the Indus Valley.
Author | : Andrew Robinson |
Publisher | : Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2021-03-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1780235410 |
The Indus civilization flourished for half a millennium from about 2600 to 1900 BCE, when it mysteriously declined and vanished from view. It remained invisible for almost four thousand years, until its ruins were discovered in the 1920s by British and Indian archaeologists. Today, after almost a century of excavation, it is regarded as the beginning of Indian civilization and possibly the origin of Hinduism. The Indus: Lost Civilizations is an accessible introduction to every significant aspect of an extraordinary and tantalizing “lost” civilization, which combined artistic excellence, technological sophistication, and economic vigor with social egalitarianism, political freedom, and religious moderation. The book also discusses the vital legacy of the Indus civilization in India and Pakistan today.
Author | : Gregory L. Possehl |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Cities and towns, Ancient |
ISBN | : 9780890890936 |
Author | : Alice Albinia |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2010-04-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780393063226 |
“Alice Albinia is the most extraordinary traveler of her generation. . . . A journey of astonishing confidence and courage.”—Rory Stewart One of the largest rivers in the world, the Indus rises in the Tibetan mountains and flows west across northern India and south through Pakistan. It has been worshipped as a god, used as a tool of imperial expansion, and today is the cement of Pakistan’s fractious union. Alice Albinia follows the river upstream, through two thousand miles of geography and back to a time five thousand years ago when a string of sophisticated cities grew on its banks. “This turbulent history, entwined with a superlative travel narrative” (The Guardian) leads us from the ruins of elaborate metropolises, to the bitter divisions of today. Like Rory Stewart’s The Places In Between, Empires of the Indus is an engrossing personal journey and a deeply moving portrait of a river and its people.
Author | : Rita P. Wright |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2009-10-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780521572194 |
This early civilization was erased from human memory until 1924, when it was rediscovered and announced in the Illustrated London Times. Our understanding of the Indus has been partially advanced by textual sources from Mesopotamia that contain references to Meluhha, a land identified by cuneiform specialists as the Indus, with which the ancient Mesopotamians traded and engaged in battles. In this volume, Rita P. Wright uses both Mesopotamian texts but principally the results of archaeological excavations and surveys to draw a rich account of the Indus civilization's well-planned cities, its sophisticated alterations to the landscape, and the complexities of its agrarian and craft-producing economy. She focuses principally on the social networks established between city and rural communities; farmers, pastoralists, and craft producers; and Indus merchants and traders and the symbolic imagery that the civilization shared with contemporary cultures in Iran, Mesopotamia, Central Asia, and the Persian Gulf region. Broadly comparative, her study emphasizes the interconnected nature of early societies.
Author | : Annalee Newitz |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2021-02-02 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 039365267X |
Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR and Science Friday A quest to explore some of the most spectacular ancient cities in human history—and figure out why people abandoned them. In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes readers on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Investigating across the centuries and around the world, Newitz explores the rise and fall of four ancient cities, each the center of a sophisticated civilization: the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in Central Turkey, the Roman vacation town of Pompeii on Italy’s southern coast, the medieval megacity of Angkor in Cambodia, and the indigenous metropolis Cahokia, which stood beside the Mississippi River where East St. Louis is today. Newitz travels to all four sites and investigates the cutting-edge research in archaeology, revealing the mix of environmental changes and political turmoil that doomed these ancient settlements. Tracing the early development of urban planning, Newitz also introduces us to the often anonymous workers—slaves, women, immigrants, and manual laborers—who built these cities and created monuments that lasted millennia. Four Lost Cities is a journey into the forgotten past, but, foreseeing a future in which the majority of people on Earth will be living in cities, it may also reveal something of our own fate.
Author | : Eileen Kernaghan |
Publisher | : Flying Monkey Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Fantasy fiction, Canadian |
ISBN | : 9780973401202 |