Meluhha: the Indus Civilization and Its Contacts with Mesopotamia

Mysteries of the Ancient World | Ancient Journeys
FamilyTime | 313K subscribers
10,016 views | March 3, 2016

Rajesh Rao is fascinated by "the mother of all crossword puzzles" - how to decipher the 4000 year old Indus script. At TED 2011, he tells how he is enlisting modern computational techniques to read the Indus language, the key piece to understanding this ancient civilization.
A Rosetta Stone for the Indus script | Rajesh Rao
TED-Ed | 18M subscribers | 48,708 views | April 5, 2013

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I had this topic on deck, viewed the vids, compiled the links, and was in no hurry to run the processor on the keyword buffer. Then, I got a link from algore to a brand new, more interesting development, and before I got around to posting that, BenLurkin posted the information from a different online source. So, that's a break for me. :^) It's a break for everyone, as a matter of fact. Link to that topic is below.

Ancient grammatical puzzle solved after 2,500 years by PhD student [12/15/2022]

he is enlisting modern computational techniques to read the Indus language

If he runs the 'puters long enough, he'll find that the Harappans wrote Hamlet.

Googled "Mark Kenoyer" at FR site, showed that this 30 minute old topic was posted 10 hours ago.

The rest is silence.

Indus Valley Ping

BTW, and to all, I set the time index on each of the video links to skip (respectively) the five minute intro, the earlier segments to the documentary, and the ad for TedEd.

The Oxus Civilization: The Lost Civilization you’ve never heard of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhhroVytLks

A possible near contemporary (timeline-wise) culture/civ between the Indus and Mesopotamia, geographically.

I listened to that the other day, decided we know more about it just from the topics in the related keywords. :^)

https://freerepublic.com/tag/viktorsarianidi/index

https://freerepublic.com/tag/oxus/index

I watched the video again this PM. The rest of the related keywords, sorted, duplicates out:

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The Lost River: On The Trail of the Sarasvati
Michel Danino
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9863042-the-lost-river

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghaggar-Hakra_River

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malwa_(Punjab)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malwai_dialect
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malavas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malvi_language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_India
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dravidian_languages

Nice job.

In this program we'll take a solid look at the Indus Valley Civilization (IVC) of northwest South Asia, also known as the Harappan Civilization. While it is clear that the people of this civilization were experts in urban planning, sanitation and drainage systems as well as some of the greatest traders of the ancient Bronze Age world, they are also among its most mysterious. This is in part due to their writing system still not being understood as well as the puzzle of their seemingly sudden disappearance from history. If you know very little about the IVC, then this is the video for you!

Contents:

00:00 Introduction
02:58 The Discovery of the Indus Valley Civilization
06:59 The Harappan World
16:04 The Mysterious Harappan Writing System
19:40 Meluhha and Mesopotamia
25:12 Great Cities
29:31 Who Ruled Harappan Society?
30:58 Harappan Religion?
32:25 The Height of Harappan Civilization
34:12 The Mysterious End
39:12 Thank You and Patrons
Introduction to the Seriously Underrated Indus Valley / Harappan Civilization | 40:34
History with Cy | 183K subscribers | 153,548 views | May 26, 2023

Meluhha?

The third Obama child nobody talks about?

As if Obama has ever fathered children.