01079nam a2200205   450000500170000000800410001702000180005803700120007604000130008808400190010110000210012024500720014126000360021330000680024949000330031752004290035065000130077965000230079265000580081520250328165744.0250324b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9788178246918  cTextual  aRTLcRTL  aY:1.2C P5qRTL  aLahiri, Nayanjot  aFinding forgotten cities: how the Indus civilization was discovered  aRanikhetbPermanent Blackc2024  axvii, 474p.bIncludes afterword, endnotes, references and index  aHedgehog and politics series  aNew Centenary Edition

A century ago, in the autumn of 1924, the scholar-archaeologist John Marshall made an announcement that dramatically altered existing perceptions of South Asia’s antiquity: he proclaimed the discovery of “the civilization of the Indus Valley.” This was seen as monumental – on the same scale as the findings of Heinrich Schliemann who unearthed Troy, and Arthur Evans who dug out Minoan Crete.  a History  aIndus Civilization  aHarappa Site (Pakistan) -- Discovery and exploration