2600 BC
- Cultural
The cities of the Indus
Via Wikimedia Commons Along the Indus, great planned cities such as Harappa and Mohenjo-daro rise, home to tens of thousands.
From the rise of the great brick cities of Harappa and Mohenjo-daro, with their gridded streets, covered drains and public baths, through a world of seals, standardized weights and long-distance trade with Mesopotamia, to the slow fading of the cities as the rivers shifted. Slide across one of the earliest urban civilisations on earth — vast, orderly and literate, yet still speaking to us in an undeciphered script.
Along the Indus, great planned cities such as Harappa and Mohenjo-daro rise, home to tens of thousands.
Around 2600 BC
From the rise of the great brick cities of Harappa and Mohenjo-daro, with their gridded streets, covered drains and public baths, through a world of seals, standardized weights and long-distance trade with Mesopotamia, to the slow fading of the cities as the rivers shifted. Slide across one of the earliest urban civilisations on earth — vast, orderly and literate, yet still speaking to us in an undeciphered script.
Along the Indus, great planned cities such as Harappa and Mohenjo-daro rise, home to tens of thousands.
Mohenjo-daro boasts a Great Bath, covered sewers and wells — an engineering of water without equal in the ancient world.
Carved seals and standardized weights speak of a trading world reaching by sea to Mesopotamia.
Indus craftsmen cast the bronze figure of the "Dancing Girl," a masterpiece of the early metalworker's art.
Changing rivers and a drying climate begin to unravel the great cities of the Indus.
The urban civilisation fades into village cultures, leaving a legacy still woven into Indian life.