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Submitted by Harappa
on July 24th, 2010 at 4:28:06 PM

Since its launch in 1995, Harappa.com has been the major website on the ancient Indus Civilization (3500-1700 BCE) in Pakistan and India. Leading scholars from from India, Pakistan, the US, UK, and Europe have published their work among its illustrated essays covering the latest research on this Bronze Age Civilization. Too little is known about the ancient Indus and its unread script to draw many firm conclusions. On the other hand, the pace of discoveries has never been quicker.

Apoorva Bhandari, a graduate student at Cambridge University who had been following the site since his boyhood had the idea to ask the Facebook Indus group to pose questions to scholars with 30 or more years of research behind them. Here are their answers. And a means to ask more new questions of this and a new group of experts for answers in 2012.

Photo Credits:All photographs used here are copyright and may not be used commercially without written permission. The majority of photographs are credited to Jonathan Mark Kenoyer, Richard H. Meadow, and the Harappa Archaeological Research Project, Courtesy Dept. of Archaeology and Museums, Govt. of Pakistan.

Above: Inscription on a large unicorn seal found in Harappa in 1999.