An excellent video, by a key thinker about the ancient Indus civilization with wide-ranging experience in neighbouring cultures, this talk was given in Chennai as the Iravatham Mahadevan Endowment Lecture on February 25, 2026.
Rita P. Wright, an archaeologist with long experience understanding the Indus areas around Harappa (see the Beas Settlement and Land Survey) looks at the complex evidence surrounding the decline of Indus civilization at the end of the third and beginning of the second millennium (around 2000 BCE and afterwards).
I founded Harappa.com in November 1995 from my then-home in the Mission district of San Francisco. I wanted to create a destination for students, scholars and general visitors to experience the Indus Valley.
What did Enki – the Mesopotamian god of wisdom, crafts fresh subterranean waters, magic, and incantations – have to say about the ancient Indus civilization?
This is an unusual book, a combination of two types of work. One is the record of a trip along the Makran coast of Baluchistan when Pakistan was a new country with a fledgling archaeology department splintered from the Archaeological Survey of India. The second is the excavation record at Sutkagen Dor, the westernmost known ancient Indus site.
This article, which has received widespread press coverage, provides a detailed climate and hydrological reconstruction of the Indus (Harappan) civilization, focusing on how cycles of river drought and fluctuating monsoon rainfall influenced its trajectory.
