The priest-king of the Indus civilization

Discovered at Mohenjo-daro in the 1920s

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The six-inch (15 cm) steatite scripture shown here, known as the ‘Priest king’, was discovered in the early 1920s on the banks of the river Indus, at a ruin mound called Mohenjo-daro, in what is now Pakistan. Nothing is known about the identity and significance, though the trefoil designs on his garment are assumed to have an astral meaning. The object is perhaps 4000 years old -- predating the invasion of India by Alexander by nearly two millennia -- and is the most famous surviving object from the Indus Valley civilization.

The remains of this civilization cover an area of Pakistan and northwest India approximately a quarter of sixe of Europe. At its peak, between 2500 and 1900 BC, its major cities could be compared with those of contemporary Mesopotamia and Egypt. They cannot boast great pyramids, statues and hordes of gold, but their well-planned streets and advanced drainage put to shame all but the town planning of this century. Yet prior to 1921, no one had even suspected the existence of such a civilization in India.

As back as the 1870s, though, archaeolkogists had been aware of an undeciphered script from Indus area. Since the 1902, scholars of many nationalities have attempted a decipherment. ~ Page 146

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Fabulous exemplar of the past of this civilization and that your text so well synthesizes!!
So many thanks, Dinesh!

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