The Indus Valley Civilization: India's First Cities | Globetrotter Episode 1 | The Story of India

Five thousand years ago, on the plains of the Indus, people built cities with straight streets, bathrooms in their homes and covered drains under the roads. Their merchants traded as far as Mesopotamia. They wrote in a script that nobody alive today can read. In Episode 1 of Globetrotter's Series 1, The Story of India, we travel from Mehrgarh, where people were farming and drilling teeth 9,000 years ago, to Harappa, Mohenjo-daro, Dholavira, Lothal and Rakhigarhi. We look at how the cities were engineered, what a day in Mohenjo-daro might have looked like, the Meluhha trade with Mesopotamia, the Dancing Girl and the Priest-King, the undeciphered script, the real evidence for why the civilization declined, and what survives of it in India today. CHAPTERS 0:00 Cold Open 0:54 Mehrgarh: The First Farmers 3:05 Rediscovery 5:02 Larger Than Egypt and Mesopotamia 6:52 Engineering the Cities 9:45 A Day in Mohenjo-daro 11:29 Trade and Meluhha 13:44 Art, Belief and the Seals 16:09 The Script Mystery 17:58 Why It Fell 20:26 What Survived 21:51 Outro: Next, the Vedic Age Next episode: The Vedic Age. Subscribe and hit the bell so you don't miss it. Comment below: which Indus Valley mystery do you find the most fascinating? Image credits: real site and artifact photos from Wikimedia Commons (CC licences). Reconstructions, narration and music are original. #IndianHistory #IndusValley #Harappa #MohenjoDaro #StoryOfIndia #Globetrotter #AncientIndia