The Indus Lost Civilizations Andrew Robinson by Andrew Robinson B01HD7IAMM instant download after payment.

This book is the perfect introduction to the Indus civilization: it deals with all the basic aspects of the culture and the society but also allows the reader to continue researching on their own after reading it.
Written by Andrew Robinson and published by Reaktion Books in 2015, The Indus is an introduction to the Indus Valley Civilisation. Who were the Indus? Where and when did they live? Maybe these two questions are the first to come to the reader's mind when starting this book. As Robinson writes in the introduction, "The Indus civilisation was, in its own way, as extraordinary as the civilizations of Egypt and Mesopotamia. But it declined around the nineteenth century BC and left no direct legacy in the Indian subcontinent."
Therefore, none of the great ancient cultures that have been deeply researched and studied by contemporary scholars cohabited with the Indus, and so, their costumes, societies, and cities had no big influence on other cultures. However, this does not mean that they left no mark at all, at least on their continent; for example, their weight measurements system is still used in some places of Pakistan and India, and even their jewelry was exported to Mesopotamia, where hoards of Indus-style artifacts have been found. Nonetheless, it was not until the 1820's CE that modern archaeologists discovered the remains of some Indus cities, Harappa for example. The relatively modern discovery and the little influence on other cultures may explain why the Indus are not so well known to modern people as other ancient cultures.