Tamil Heritage Trust
Indology Festival 2024, "Harappan Civilization: A
Century of Discovery" celebrates the Centenary of the discovery - more
accurately, of the announcement of the discovery - of the Harappan
Civilization.
From June 10th to 15th, 2024 - a series of Talks by
archaeologists and other experts on various fascinating aspects that
have been uncovered so far as well the mysteries that remain buried in
the sands of time.
#THTIndoFest2024 offers two Online Talks every day starting at 5.30 pm. And they are free to watch.
You can watch the Talks here
On September 20, 1924, The Illustrated London News published the first
images announcing the discovery of the Indus Valley Civilization. In the
accompanying article Sir John Marshall, Director General of Archaeology
of India, wrote a little breathlessly: "The two sites where these
somewhat startling remains have been discovered are some 400 miles apart
- the one being at Harappa.., and the other at Mohenjo-daro... At both
these places there is a vast expanse of artificial mounds evidently
covering the remains of once flourishing cities, which ...must have been
in existence for many hundreds of years."
A week later, in his Letter to the Editor of the same publication,
Professor A.H. Sayce, a famous Assyriologist, wrote that “the remarkable
discoveries….. of which Sir John Marshall has given an account….are
even more remarkable and startling than he supposes”. He explained
that the seals in the pictures of the newly discovered cities were
identical to those found in Sumer at layers from around 2600-2300
BCE. “The discovery opens up a new historical vista and is likely
to revolutionise our ideas of the age and origin of Indian
civilization”, he prophesied.
Today, over 1400 sites of this ancient yet sophisticated urban
civilization have been discovered, spread over a vast geographical
region including Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. Over the last century,
archaeologists and scholars from across the world have contributed
richly to the understanding of this great civilization that existed in
various phases of maturity between 3300 BCE and 1300 BCE.
#THTIndoFest2024 will cover
What the Harappans ate and how they grew their food
Who they traded with and what was their marketing strategy
How they viewed family and kinship
Their advanced technology and skills in crafts and metallurgy
How Gujarat was a hub of the Harappan Civilization
Their script and what the experts have been able to understand so far seals and and more..
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