A Peaceful Realm: The Rise and Fall of the Indus River Civilization (Hardback)
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|Short Description for A Peaceful Realm This is an overview the origins of the Indus civilization, the rise of Mohenjo Daro and other urban centres, the evidence of social and religious life, attempts to decipher the Indus script, contact with the outside world (including Mesopotamia), and the ultimate end of the Indus civilization.
Full description- Publisher: BASIC BOOKS
- Published: 04 December 2001
- Format: Hardback 224 pages
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- Categories: Asian History | Middle Eastern History | Ancient History: To C 500 CE | Classical History / Classical Civilisation
- ISBN 13: 9780813335322 ISBN 10: 0813335329
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Full description for A Peaceful Realm
An outstandingly vivid recreation of one of the world's great yet all-but-lost ancient civilizations. . Some 5000 years ago, civilized societies emerged in the valleys of four great rivers: the Nile, the Euphrates, the Yellow, and the Indus. Of these primary Old World civilizations, that of the Indus remains the least known and the most enigmatic, though, paradoxically, it has left perhaps the most lasting influence on the societies that followed it. In this lucid account - abundantly illustrated with maps and photographs, including sixteen pages in full color - archaeologist Jane McIntosh addresses what we know about the rise and fall of the civilization of the Indus and Saraswati valleys, what it might be reasonable to speculate, and what we still hope to learn. While drawing on archaeological and linguistic evidence to create a portrait of the civilization from the inside, McIntosh also carefully pieces together a wider picture of the Indus civilization using evidence from its trading partners in Mesopotamia, the Persian Gulf, the Indian subcontinent, and Southwest Asia. The result is an outstandingly vivid recreation of one of the world's great but all-but-lost ancient civilizations.
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