Female figurine of the Mature Harappan period, 2700–2000 BCE, Indus civilization ... s role in placing the Indus Valley on the global civilizational map has been widely acknowledged.

The Indus Valley Civilization (IVC), or Harappan Civilization, as it came to be called, also had extensive terrestrial and maritime trade connections with, among others, Central Asia, Mesopotamia ...

Important buildings like the Great Bath at Mohenjo-Daro were built over ... We know that only the cities fell into ruins. Farmers in the Indus Valley went on living in their villages and working ...