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037 _cTextual
040 _aRTL
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100 _aLahiri, Nayanjot
245 _aFinding forgotten cities: how the Indus civilization was discovered
260 _aRanikhet
_bPermanent Black
_c2024
300 _axvii, 474p.
_bIncludes afterword, endnotes, references and index
490 _aHedgehog and politics series
520 _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.
650 _a History
650 _aIndus Civilization
650 _aHarappa Site (Pakistan) -- Discovery and exploration
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