The little known Indus Valley
Culture
flourished throughout
large areas of modern
India and Pakistan in
the 3rd Millennium BC, along
the Indus, a river arising
from the snowy Himalayan
mountains. When the snow
melted in the spring, the
river used to flood, providing
fertile soil and the perfect
conditions for civilization to
develop. Public knowledge of
this culture is almost
non-existent in the west,
largely because the major
towns of Harappa and
Mohenjo-Daro were only
discovered at the turn of the
last century. However, these
Bronze Age people had
knowledge of town planning,
sewers and sophisticated
architecture long before the
Greeks and Romans. Indus
valley artifacts are gaining
popularity on the art market
as collectors start to
appreciate this fascinating
culture and the imaginative
art that it produced.
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