Episode 42 - Here Be Unicorns: The Ancient Indus Valley
Join Anna and Amber on an excursion to the Indus Valley, and an exploration of some of the ancient societies therein. Learn about the thrills of city planning and indoor toilets, experience the mystery and absurdity of the Indus "unicorn," and enjoy a surprising number of Anna's best seal impersonations.
To learn more, check out:
A brief history of the Indus River (Geological Society, London, Special Publications)
World of Change: Seasons of the Indus River (NASA Earth Observatory)
The Glow of the Indus River Basin (NASA Earth Observatory)
Pakistan’s Crumbling Cultural Heritage (The Diplomat)
Mehrgarh, Pakistan and Life in the Indus Valley Before Harappa (ThoughtCo)
The Indus Civilization: A Contemporary Perspective (via Google Books)
Archaeological Ruins at Moenjodaro (UNESCO)
‘Findings show Moenjodaro was larger than unearthed ruins’ (Dawn)
Coastal Sites: Possible Port Towns Of Harappan time in Gujarat (Port Towns of Gujarat, via Academia.edu)
Magan and Meluhha merchants at Ur? (Beiträge Kulturgeschichte Vorderasiens, via Academia.edu)
The Indus Civilization and Dilmun, the Sumerian Paradise Land (Expedition)
Meluhha: the Indus Civilization and Its Contacts with Mesopotamia (via YouTube)
The Roots of Hinduism: The Early Aryans and the Indus Civilization (via Google Books(
A new approach to tracking connections between the Indus Valley and Mesopotamia: initial results of strontium isotope analyses from Harappa and Ur (Journal of Archaeological Science)
Excavations at Ras al-Hadd, Oman (British Museum)
Seasonal Aspects of Bronze and Iron Age Communities at Ra's al-Hadd, Oman (Environmental Archaeology)
Entropic Evidence for Linguistic Structure in the Indus Script (Science)
Ancient civilization: Cracking the Indus script (Nature)
Photo credit: Unicorn. Mold of Seal, Indus valley civilization, via Wikicommons, licensed under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.